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Stacy Jorgensen
Stacy Jorgensen, Assistant
Professor
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biogeography; Landscape and Ecological Genetics; Conservation and Natural Resource Management Hawai'i, Pacific Islands, Rocky Mountains
Phone: (808) 956-7526
Email: jorgy@hawaii.edu
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jorgy/
Education
B.S., Wildlife Biology, University of Montana, 1992
M.S., Botany, University of Georgia, 1996
Ph.D., Geography, University of Georgia, 2002
Research interests
My research centers on the geographic distribution of genetic diversity in species with discontinuous distributions across the landscape, such as those confined to high-elevation or oceanic islands.
Courses Taught
Geog 101 The Natural Environment
Geog 665 Seminar in Geography of the Pacific
Publications
Jørgensen S, Mauricio R (2005) Hybridization as a source of evolutionary novelty: leaf shape in a Hawaiian composite. Genetica 123: 171-179
Jørgensen S, Mauricio R (2004) Neutral genetic variation among wild North American populations of the weedy plant Arabidopsis thaliana is not geographically structured. Molecular Ecology 13: 3403-3413
Parker KC, Jørgensen S ( 2003) Examples of the use of molecular markers in biogeographic research. Physical Geography 24: 378-398
Jørgensen S, Hamrick JL, Wells PV (2002) Regional patterns of genetic variability in Pinus flexilis (Pinaceae) reveal complex species history. American Journal of Botany 89: 792-800
Jørgensen S, Hamrick JL (1997) Biogeography and population genetics of whitebark pine, Pinus albicaulis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27: 1574-1585
