I completed my undergraduate work at Colorado College, and am currently a Ph.D student of Jim Brown's at the University of New Mexico. My current research interests are in the area of emergent spatial and temporal patterns of species diversity, the mechanisms that drive them, and their potential importance in predicting the effects of global change. I am currently investigating species-area and species-time relationships from local to global scales, the manner in which the key mechanisms change according to scale, and how similar changes in both the relationships and the mechanisms can be used to address questions of space-time equivalency. Other current areas of interest include: the potentially fractal nature of species distributions and its applicability to understanding energy allocation rules, and the application of Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography to the questions listed above.

Home page: http://www.unm.edu/~epwhite