Sparkle  Malone

Dr. Sparkle L. Malone obtained her PhD from the University of Alabama in 2014, where she studied the carbon fluxes in subtropical wetland ecosystems. She then worked for the USDA Forest Service at Rocky Mountain Research Station from 2014-2017 and at Florida International University (FIU) from 2017- 2022. At FIU, she established the Malone Disturbance Ecology lab. Her primary research focused on improving our understanding of how climate and disturbance regimes influence spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure and function. She explores questions related to ecosystem conditions, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate extremes using remote sensing and eddy covariance. In the fall of 2022, she joined the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) and the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC).