Michelle Mack

Michelle Mack is a Regents' Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and a key faculty member at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on Arctic and boreal ecosystems, with emphasis on wildfire, permafrost, carbon cycling, and vegetation dynamics under climate change.

• Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
• Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University

Her research interests span ecosystem science, boreal forest ecology, Arctic tundra dynamics, permafrost, wildfire ecology, and climate change impacts. She employs field surveys, remote sensing, and modeling to understand how northern ecosystems respond to environmental change, particularly fire and warming.

Recent publications highlight her work on Arctic vegetation mapping, overwintering fires, tundra phenology, and post-fire carbon recovery. Her research often involves large interdisciplinary collaborations and contributes to major datasets used in global change science.

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She is actively involved in mentoring and collaborative research, as evidenced by her frequent co-authorship with early-career scientists and inclusion in multi-investigator datasets. While no formal students are listed, her role in large research teams suggests significant advisory and leadership responsibilities. She contributes to major environmental research initiatives such as the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

She leads and contributes to research teams generating critical ecological datasets on boreal and Arctic systems. Her work is central to understanding climate feedbacks in high-latitude ecosystems.