- Profile
Quinn Asena is a Data Scientist in the Forest Futures Lab working with Dr. Winslow Hansen on boreal forest ecology. He completed a PhD at the University of Auckland, NZ, in paleoecology and ecological modelling with George Perry and Janet Wilmshurst. After which, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate with Jack Williams and Tony Ives at UW-Madison, WI, in developing a state-space modelling approach for estimating biotic interactions and environment-species relationships.
Quinn is interested in ecological dynamics and mechanisms that underlie change in ecosystems overtime and space. His main research focus is around biotic interactions and how ecosystems respond to environmental and climate change. Much of his previous research focused on long-term ecological trajectories and palaeoecology. Currently, Quinn is exploring contemporary ecosystem change through process-based models.