Lydia N Bailey, PhD
Lydia Bailey is a biologist at the Fort Collins Science Center, working on the coproduction of science with land managers.
Lydia began her career working seasonally as a botanist, spending most of her time in dryland ecosystems. She was a crew lead and state coordinator for the Great Basin Institute AIM Program, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, in the sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west. She moved to Flagstaff, Arizona in 2017 to purse her PhD with the DIRT Lab at Northern Arizona University. Her research focused on developing and testing novel restoration methods using biological soil crust to support ecological recovery in the Mojave Desert, working with the Las Vegas BLM Field Office. She remained with the DIRT lab for a post-doc continuing this work in California’s inland empire until joining the USGS in 2024. Lydia is excited to continue working alongside land managers to ensure science is useful and usable to benefit public lands.
Science and Products
Developing a series of fire science syntheses for wildland fire managers
Developing habitat models for rare plants to inform decision making on multiple-use public lands
Developing Science Plans for the Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System
Developing science syntheses to facilitate climate-informed land management decisions and NEPA analyses on rangelands in the sagebrush biome
Elucidating mechanisms underlying amphibian declines in North America using hierarchical spatial models
Science and Products
Developing a series of fire science syntheses for wildland fire managers
Developing habitat models for rare plants to inform decision making on multiple-use public lands
Developing Science Plans for the Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System
Developing science syntheses to facilitate climate-informed land management decisions and NEPA analyses on rangelands in the sagebrush biome
Elucidating mechanisms underlying amphibian declines in North America using hierarchical spatial models
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