My name is Steven Quick. 

I'm just a guy that likes trees, numbers and cool tech, but I also go by "quantitative ecologist" or "forest landscape researcher." I'm a proud member of the Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw diaspora in the United States, and I have lived in the Puget Sound region my entire life. Outside the lab, I'm a father and a husband; a homebody but also an avid outdoorsman, and nothing will stop me from crabbing this summer!

Anyway - welcome to my corner of the internet! This website is a repository for stories and photos from my research career. If there is anything I can do to help you - anything at all - please reach out.

I currently carry the title of Research Associate at the Mount St. Helens Institute where I'm developing a LANDIS-II forest succession model to investigate landscape-scale recovery after disturbance. My master's thesis explored the effects of a light-touch, restorative-thinning approach on forest carbon pools, but I spent most of graduate school studying forest ecohydrology to understand how individual trees mitigate urban stormwater. Fundamentally, my research investigates individual- and site-level processes, scaled up to understand ecosystem- and landscape-level systems.

Explore my CV, portfolio, and resume, as well as some of my community projects in the links at the top of the page.