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Kristen Haynes

Kristen Haynes

Assistant Director

Contact Information

Rice Creek Field Station
315.312.6678
[email protected]

Focus

  • Outreach
  • Public programming
  • Equipment & collections management
  • Canal Forest Restoration Project

Prior Field Station Experience

  • Business Manager, Cranberry Lake Biological Station, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) (2015–2018)
  • Research Fellow, Cranberry Lake Biological Station, ESF (2017)
  • Graduate Assistant (Teaching & Research), Adirondack Ecological Center, ESF Newcomb Campus (2016)

Research

  • Field biology
  • Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Genetics
  • Sustainability
  • Botany
  • Ethics of nature/science
  • Environmental studies

Publications

  • Haynes, K.R., Friedman, J., Stella, J.C., & Leopold, D.J. (2021). Assessing climate change tolerance and the niche breadth‑range size hypothesis in rare and widespread alpine plants. Oecologia.
  • Berend, K., Haynes, K., & MacKenzie, C. M. (2019). Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in northeastern North America. Rhodora, 121(987), 174-212.

Education

  • PhD, Ecology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2019
  • BS, Natural Resources, Cornell University
  • Certificate in University Teaching, Syracuse University
  • Certified Interpretive Guide, National Association for Interpretation