Biographical Info

William Anderegg grew up in Cortez, Colorado. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in biology and climate change from Stanford University. He was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University. He has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah since 2016 and was awarded a Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

Dr. Anderegg studies forest responses to climate change. As a part of Mission STEMCAP he gave a presentation about climate change’s impact on Utah ecosystems and food webs. His presentation included an interactive activity in which students portrayed different species within a forest ecosystem, connected by a string, and explored how the movement or loss of one species affected the rest of the food web.