Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer

ABOUT

Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer (he/him and she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, working in Dr. Bethany Bradley's Spatial Ecology Lab. Originally from Tucker, Georgia, Thomas received his BA in Biology & History from Marlboro College.Thomas' research interests include biogeography, invasive plants, and climate driven range-shifts of native plants in the Northeastern US. She is a fellow with the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, a Spaulding-Smith Fellow, a steward and member of GEO-UAW 2322, and a member of the Northeast Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change network leadership team. He is also a poet and visual artist whose work draws largely from ecology and the natural world.

RESEARCH

Nuhfer, T. W. M., & Bradley, B. A. (2025). Balancing Risk and Resilience: Which Plant Traits Should Inform Managed Relocation Species Selection? Global Change Biology, 31(3), e70145. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.7014Nuhfer, T. W. M., & Bradley, B. A. (2026). Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad. (In prep)Ongoing projects:
- Building a database of 'nativar' traits using plant patents to compare to straight species
- Developing a list of invasive plant species in the Northeast region for the Northeast Invasive Plant Councils
- Developing scoring models to identify strong candidate species for managed relocation
- Understanding the role of species nomenclature in plant risk assessment via practitioner surveying

POETRY

OUTREACH

VISUAL ART

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