JANET S.

PREVÉY
CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Ph.D. in Ecology, 2009 – 2014
Dissertation: Effects of precipitation change on a semi-arid grassland: community responses and
management strategies

IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY

M.S. in Botany, 2007-2008
Thesis: Loss of foundation species and invasion by exotic plants in sagebrush steppe: the role of
soil-water partitioning

THE COLORADO COLLEGE

B.A. in Biology, 2000-2004
Margaret Barnes Natural Science Scholar

POSITIONS Research Ecologist, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Washington, 2016 - present
Postdoctoral Scholar, WSL Institute for Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland, 2014 -2016
Research Assistant, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, 2010-2013
Teaching Assistant, Bioethical Dilemmas discussion class, University of Colorado, spring 2013
Teaching Assistant, General Biology Lab, University of Colorado, 2009-2010
Biological Science Technician (vascular botanist), Denali National Park, summer 2009
Research Assistant, Idaho State University, 2007-2009
Biological Science Technician (botanist), San Isabel National Forest, summer 2004-2006
Biological Science Technician (wildlife), San Isabel National Forest, fall 2004-2006

GRANTS & PNW Research Station Science Findings Award: Nature and nurture: Genetic variation and
temperature regime influence the timing of flowering of trees ($5,000), 2018.
AWARDS
USGS Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Grant: Climate impacts on the locations and
availability of food sources from native northwestern shrubs (co-PI, $145,000), 2017-2019.
INTERACT Transnational Access Grant: Phenology and plasticity of Arctic plants in Barrow,
Alaska. ($1,600), 2015
EBIO Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($14,000), 2013
CU Boulder graduate school travel grants ($900), 2011, 2012, and 2013
Graduate Climate Conference travel grant ($300), 2012
United Government of Graduate Students travel grant ($300), 2011
EPA STAR graduate fellowship ($99,886), 2010-2013

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 EBIO Graduate Student Research Grants ($2,000), 2010 and 2012
Best Science Lecture Award, Intermountain Graduate Research Symposium ($350), 2009
Margaret Barnes Natural Science Scholarship (full-tuition, $120,000), 2000-2004

PUBLICATIONS Prevéy JS, C Rixen, and the ITEX consortium [36 others]. Accepted. Warming shortens flowering
seasons of Arctic and alpine plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Bjorkman AB, [and 126 others, including JS Prevéy]. 2018. Changes in plant functional traits
across a warming tundra biome. Nature 562:57-62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-
0563-7
Metcalfe DB, [and 28 others, including JS Prevéy]. 2018. Patchy field sampling biases
understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
https:doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0612-5.
Prevéy JS, CA Harrington. 2018. Effectiveness of winter temperatures for satisfying chilling
requirements for reproductive budburst of red alder (Alnus rubra). PeerJ
https://peerj.com/articles/5221
Prevéy JS, CA Harrington, and JB St. Clair. 2018. Fall and winter temperature and adaptive
genetic variation influence the timing of flowering of Douglas-fir. Forest Ecology and
Management 409:729-739. DOI10.1016/j.foreco.2017.11.062
JE Knelman, EB Graham, JS Prevéy, MS Robeson, P Kelly, E Hood, S.K. Schmidt. 2018.
Interspecific plant interactions occur via influence on soil bacterial community
structure and nitrogen cycling in primary succession. Frontiers in Microbiology.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00128
Wilcox, KR, AT Tredennick, [and 45 others, including JS Prevéy]. 2017. Asynchrony
among local communities stabilizes ecosystem function of metacommunities. Ecology
Letters 20:1534-1545. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12861
Prevéy JS, C Rixen, and the ITEX consortium [36 others]. 2017. Greater temperature sensitivity of
plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes.
Global Change Biology 23:2660-2671. doi:10.1111/gcb.13619.
O’Connor, J, JS Prevéy, and TR Seastedt. 2015. Effects of short-term soil conditioning by
cheatgrass and western wheatgrass. Prairie Naturalist 47:65–72.
Prevéy, JS, and TR Seastedt. 2015. Effects of precipitation change and neighboring plants on
population dynamics of Bromus tectorum. Oecologia. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3398-z
Concilio, AL, JS Prevéy, P Omasta, J O’Connor, JB Nippert, TR, Seastedt. 2015. Response of a
mixed grass prairie to an extreme precipitation event: Introduced species, soil nitrogen and
previous precipitation patterns influence responses. Ecosphere 6:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES15-00073.1
Prevéy, JS, and TR Seastedt. 2015. Increased winter precipitation benefits the native plant
pathogen Ustilago bullata that infects an invasive grass. Biological Invasions 17: 3041.
Prevéy, JS, and TR Seastedt. 2014. Seasonality of precipitation interacts with
exotic species to alter composition and phenology of a semi-arid grassland. Journal of
Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12320.
Prevéy, JS, DG Knochel, and TR Seastedt. 2014. Mowing reduces exotic annual grasses but
increases exotic forbs in a semiarid grassland. Restoration Ecology DOI:
10.1111/rec.12140.
Beals, SC, LM Hartley, JS Prevéy, and TR Seastedt. 2014. The effects of black-tailed
prairie dogs on plant communities within a complex urban landscape: an ecological
surprise? Ecology 95: 1349-1359.
Prevéy, JS, MJ Germino, and NJ Huntly. 2010. Loss of foundation species increases population
growth of exotic forbs in sagebrush steppe. Ecological Applications 20:1890-1902.
Prevéy, JS, MJ Germino, NJ Huntly, and RS Inouye. 2010. Exotic plants increase and native
plants decrease with loss of foundation species in sagebrush steppe. Plant Ecology
207:39-51.

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PRESENTATIONS Prevéy, JS. First Foods: Changes in the range and phenology of culturally-important shrubs with
(SELECTED) climate change. Wild Links Meeting, Cascadia Partner Forum. Invited talk. Leavenworth,
WA. October 2018.
Prevéy, JS, L Parker and CA Harrington. Changing ranges and phenology of culturally-important
shrubs of the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Oral
presentation. New Orleans, LA. August 2018.
Prevéy, JS and CA Harrington. Changing phenology of northwestern shrubs. Northwest
Scientific Association. Oral presentation. Olympia, WA. March 2018.
Prevéy, JS, CA Harrington and JB St. Clair. Timing is everything: Linking temperature and
genetic variation to reproductive phenology of Douglas-fir. Northwest Seed Orchard
Manager’s Association Annual Meeting. Invited presentation. Medford, OR. June
2017.
Prevéy, JS, CA Harrington and JB St. Clair. How do trees know when to flower? American
Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. Dec. 2016.
Prevéy, JS, C Rixen, and the ITEX consortium. Flowering time and historical climate help explain
phenological responses of Arctic and alpine plants to climate change. Arctic Change
Conference. Oral presentation. Ottawa, CA 8-12 Dec. 2014.
Prevéy, JS and TR Seastedt. Effects of precipitation change of population dynamics of Bromus
tectorum and abundance of the pathogen Ustilago bullata. Oral presentation. Ecological
Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 4-9 August 2013.
Prevéy, JS. Effects of precipitation change on a Colorado grassland. Invited talk. Colorado Native
Plant Society, Boulder Chapter Programs, CO. 14 Mar 2013.
Prevéy, JS and TR Seastedt. Effects of precipitation change on population dynamics of Bromus
tectorum. MtnClim Conference, Estes Park, CO. 1-4 October 2012.
Prevéy, JS and TR Seastedt. Precipitation change alters community composition of a semi-arid
grassland. Oral presentation. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.
6-10 August 2012.
Prevéy, JS. Effects of precipitation change on vegetation and ecosystem services in a Colorado
grassland. Poster presentation. EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship Conference. 19-21 Sept.
2011.
Prevéy, JS, DG Knochel and TR Seastedt. Effects of simulated grazing on a grassland
community in the Colorado Front Range. Oral presentation. Ecological Society of America
Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. 7-12 August 2011.
Prevéy, JS. Effects of loss of foundation species on exotic forb populations in sagebrush steppe:
the role of soil-water partitioning. Oral Presentation. Intermountain Graduate Research
Symposium. Utah State University, UT. 1 April 2009.

GUEST Making Beautiful Graphics in R, R Workshop at Northwest Science Association meeting, March
2018: https://github.com/janetprevey/Graphics-in-R-tutorial
LECTURES
Trees and Native People, Evergreen State University, Spring semester 2017
Ecosystem Ecology, University of Colorado, Spring semesters 2011 and 2012
Intervention Ecology, University of Colorado, Fall semesters 2010 and 2011

MEMBERSHIP International Tundra Experiment Consortium

sTUNDRA Working Group
The Herbivory Network
CoRRE Working Group contributor
500 Women Scientists / Seattle 500 Women Scientists
Ecological Society of America
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
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 JOURNAL Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Agricultural and
Forest Meteorology, Plant Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, Arctic Science,
REVIEWS HortScience, Ecology and Evolution

OUTREACH Co-developer of interactive website for Douglas-fir phenology, used by seed orchard and land
managers to help predict when Douglas-fir cones will become receptive in spring across the
PNW: http://trees.ty.codes
Organizer of symposium on native food plants of the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Science
Association meeting, March 2018.
Participant in Mount St. Helens Institute High School STEM Field Study Program, and panelist at
the STEM Field Study Student Conference, 2017- current.
Science fair judge for USFS PNW Award at Washington State Science and Engineering Fair, 1st –
12th grade, 2017.
Reviewer for Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) educational materials,
2013.
Organizational committee for Boulder Country Ecosystem Symposium, 2013.
Member of CU Climate Change Outreach Committee, 2013.