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class=\"slideshow_align_caption\"><h2 class='avia-caption-title '  itemprop=\"name\" >FOREST ECOSYSTEMS<br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\nGLOBAL CHANGE LAB<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-611 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-611\"  src=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-ordway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/314\/2025\/03\/IMG_0485-1500x430.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"430\" title='IMG_0485' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lm9lxm0v-91459323e88197e74d31ce76d45c4f41\">\n#top 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How we choose to address these challenges will have far-reaching impacts on ecological processes, biodiversity, and society. Combining remote sensing, field observations, models, and socioeconomic analyses, we integrate theory and methods from ecology, earth science, economics, and land system science to gain new insight into pattern and process across scales in forest ecosystems in the context of global environmental change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;font-size: 18pt\">Elsa Ordway, the lab PI, is an Assistant Professor in the <span style=\"color: #b5d49d\"><a style=\"color: #b5d49d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eeb.ucla.edu\/\">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/a> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #b5d49d\"><a style=\"color: #b5d49d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ioes.ucla.edu\/\">Institute of the Environment and Sustainability<\/a><\/span> at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Co-Director of the <span style=\"color: #b5d49d\"><a style=\"color: #b5d49d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbi.ucla.edu\/\">Congo Basin Institute<\/a> <\/span>and UCLA&#8217;s <a style=\"color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ioes.ucla.edu\/ctr\/\"><span style=\"color: #b5d49d\">Center for Tropical Research<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;font-size: 18pt\">If you are interested in joining the lab, we would love to hear from you! 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