Beth Roskilly

Phenotypic and genomic patterns of climate adaptation in western larch

Beth is a PhD student in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She joined the CoAdapTree project in June 2018. Beth completed a Master’s of Science at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she studied how slow-growing ponderosa pine trees live longer than fast-growing trees in natural populations due to a fundamental physiological trade-off between drought tolerance and growth based on xylem structure. Beth is interested in understanding how phenotypic and genomic variation contributes to climate adaptation among natural and selectively-bred populations of western larch to assess the risks and opportunities for assisted migration posed by climate change.