Alex Fox

Hydrologic Science PhD Student

University of Wyoming

Biography

I am a PhD student at the University of Wyoming working in Professor Brent Ewers’ Ecophysiology Lab. I’m particularly interested in applying modern technology and informatics tools to study ecosystem fluxes and inform land management decisions.

Interests

Hydrology
Sustainable Agriculture
Biophysics
Ecoinformatics
Fluxin’ Around
Falling off of bicycles

Education

PhD student in Hydrology (current)
University of Wyoming
BA in Physics and Mathematics, 2018
Oberlin College

Recent Posts

Installing rTREES in a virtual environment using conda

title: “Installing rTREES in a virtual environment using conda” author: Alex Fox draft: false date: 2023-05-10 tags: - Tutorials This tutorial is designed to help you run the TREES model in a “virtual environment,” a quarantine chamber for software, so that it doesn’t interfere with/get affected by your other R projects.

Last updated on May 19, 2023 17 min read

Working in Python with Jupyter and Anaconda

Image source: https://xkcd.com/1987/ I wrote this tutorial to help people in my lab learn how to manage their python and R environments using anaconda. I’ve gotten some positive feedback on it, so hopefully you’ll find it helpful too.

Last updated on Mar 1, 2023 11 min read

Working in Python with Jupyter and Anaconda

Kernza Website

We made some social media pages for the Kernza project! Website: kernzawyoming.org Instagram: @kernzawyoming

Last updated on Feb 19, 2023 1 min read

Kicking off Kernza

Back in October, my partner Hannah Rodgers and I applied for a Western SARE Professional+Producer grant under P.I. Professor Jay Norton, one of Hannah’s PhD Advisors, along with several farmers across eastern Wyoming, with the goal of evaluating the potential benefits for perennial grains in Wyoming, and hopefully adopting them as a commercial crop in the future.

Last updated on Feb 19, 2023 2 min read

Projects

Eddy Covariance Preprocessing Pipeline

I’m building a high-throughput data pipeline to process data from the US-CPk Ameriflux site. This is part of my PhD research. This page is incomplete. More to come later.

Modeling Kernza Drought Response

I’m studying how process models can be used to predict ecological consequences of different plant physiologies, especially with respect to drought resistance and perenniality. in eastern Wyoming dryland grain agriuculture.

Snowmelt Energy Budget Imbalances

I’m studying how snowmelt energy budgets can be used to constrain uncertainty in surface energy flux measurements at Rocky Mountain Ameriflux sites. This is part of my PhD research. This page is incomplete.

Recent Talks and Presentations

Linking Plant-Scale Processes to Ecosystem Function: PhD Proposal Defense Seminar

I gave my PhD proposal defense seminar today! I presented on my research for the weekly University of Wyoming Botany Department seminar series. Here you’ll find a recording of my talk as well as a link to my slides.

Feb 9, 2023 4:12 PM

Project Project

Botany Seminar Slides

The Ewers lab group gave a seminar to the UW botany department. See the slides here

Dec 5, 2022 4:12 PM

Alex Fox, Brent Ewers, Carmela Guadagno, Bridger Huhn, Benjamin Romanjenko

Project

Understanding ecosystem processes in the subalpine forests of Wyoming and Colorado under synergistic disturbances from bark beetles, wildfire, and climate change

I presented a poster on recent developments and projects at Rocky Mountain Ameriflux sites at the 2022 Ameriflux Annual Meeting Download the poster

Oct 20, 2022 4:12 PM

Alex Fox, John M. Frank, Peter Blanken, Mario Bretfeld, Sean Burns, Brent Ewers, Rob Hubbard, Bill Massman, Stefan Metzger6,, Andy Parsekian, David Reed, Xiaonan Tai, Ye Zhang