Adelia completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz and is currently a researcher at the Doak Lab at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests are in in studying how populations of long-lived organisms respond and adapt to changes in their environment. Many long-lived species play key roles in shaping entire communities and ecosystems, yet these same species are challenging to study over the extended time-scales that are most relevant when considering population change (e.g., centuries or millennia). Adelia's research seeks to develop solutions to the problems of population ecology and demographic modeling for organisms with great longevity. Specifically, Adelia studies the ancient bristlecone pine trees of California’s White Mountain range, which are believed to be oldest unitary organisms on earth.