Aquila Flower

Aquila Flower is Professor of Geography and Director of the Spatial Institute at Western Washington University's Huxley College of Environment. Her interdisciplinary research examines climate change impacts on forest, alpine, and coastal ecosystems using dendrochronology, GIS, and statistical methods. She leads the Salish Sea Atlas project developing open-access biogeographic resources.

Flower teaches physical geography and geospatial techniques courses while advising GIS and Climate Change academic programs. Her research portfolio demonstrates consistent investigation of climate-ecosystem interactions, particularly snowmelt dynamics, wildfire ecology, and conifer encroachment patterns. Recent publications emphasize geospatial approaches to understanding regional environmental change.

The Salish Sea Atlas represents a major research output synthesizing data on marine basins, land cover, human populations, and watershed systems. This cartographic resource supports conservation planning and public education about this transnational bioregion.