Cascade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California-Irvine. She is interested in how climate change will influence the compositions of local communities and the distributions of species across broad regions. Her recent projects include exploring potential “coping mechanisms” that will allow species to persist in a changing climate. Cascade enjoyed studying historical changes in the rocky intertidal and shallow subtidal communities around Sitka with an eye for predicting effects of future climate changes. (July 2014). KCAW INTERVIEW Publication - "Warming and Elevated CO2 Interact to Drive Rapid Shifts in Marine Community Production"