Bio

John Bradford is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. His research seeks to understand how climate change and altered drought will interact with disturbances and land use to impact upland vegetation in drylands, which include shrublands, grasslands, woodlands and dry forests.

John leads the dryland ecohydrology team, which works to understand future ecological drought in drylands, inform long-term planning under climate change, and develop and evaluate climate adaptation actions. John and his team partner with resource managers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and other agencies, to co-produce science that informs adaptive strategies. John strives to communicate both the magnitude of expected climate impacts, as well as the uncertainty in those impacts, while promoting optimism in the face of daunting 21^st century resource management challenges.

John grew up in Colorado, attended graduate school at Colorado State University and has lived in Flagstaff Arizona since 2011. In his free time, John tries to catch fish with a fly rod; tries to play saxophone in various bands; and tries to convince his two teenage children to go camping with him, his wife, and their little brown dog.