Bio

I have a lifelong love for lakes and landscapes. This led to many years teaching environmental science curriculum, and researching Ice Age landscape change in North America. During my Ph.D. in Geography at UCLA, I developed a 120,000-year environmental history from lake sediment cores in the San Bernardino Mountains. I also worked with the La Brea Tar Pits fossil plant collection, and was fortunate to continue this research during my postdoc at the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine.

In my current role at Stanford, it is a privilege to highlight the beauty and complexity of California's native ecosystems every day to students, docents, colleagues, and visitors.

Current Role at Stanford

Associate Director of Environmental Education, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

Education & Certifications

  • B.A., DePauw University, Geology, cum laude
  • M.S., University of Cincinnati, Geology
  • Ph.D., UCLA, Geography

Contact

  • Work
    kcglover@stanford.edu
    University - Staff Department: Jasper Ridge Position: Associate Director for Environmental Education

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 5020

2025-26 Courses

All Publications

  • Integrating Woody Biochar, Women, and Youth in Maine's Bioenergy Industry: Benefits and Challenges SUSTAINABILITY Novak, A., Glover, K., Li, L. 2022; 14 (22)

    View details for DOI 10.3390/su142214937

    View details for Web of Science ID 000887541100001

  • West Coast vegetation shifts as a response to climate change over the past 130,000 years: geographic patterns and process from pollen data PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Glover, K. C., George, J., Heusser, L., MacDonald, G. M. 2021; 42 (6): 542-560

    View details for DOI 10.1080/02723646.2021.1990506

    View details for Web of Science ID 000711265300001

  • Dredging Impacts on Soil Properties of the Kankakee River System 150 Years after Perturbation WETLANDS Ferrara, J. V., Puhlick, J. J., Patterson, T. A., Glover, K. C. 2020; 40 (6): 2577-2584

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s13157-020-01347-9

    View details for Web of Science ID 000567767100002

  • Southern California Vegetation, Wildfire, and Erosion Had Nonlinear Responses to Climatic Forcing During Marine Isotope Stages 5-2 (120-15 ka) PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY Glover, K. C., Chaney, A., Kirby, M. E., Patterson, W. P., MacDonald, G. M. 2020; 35 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2019PA003628

    View details for Web of Science ID 000519306800010

  • Teaching California climate and vegetation change over long timescales: an NGSS unit using CalFlora and the Neotoma Paleoecology Database The California Geographer Glover, K. C. 2017; 56
  • Deglaciation, basin formation and post-glacial climate change from a regional network of sediment core sites in Ohio and eastern Indiana QUATERNARY RESEARCH Glover, K. C., Lowell, T. V., Wiles, G. C., Pair, D., Applegate, P., Hajdas, I. 2011; 76 (3): 401-410

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000296672100013