Following her time at Stanford, Buckley pursued postdoctoral fellowships at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and the Santa Fe Institute.

[5] Buckley's work has focused on improving the modeling and forecasting of organismal responses to climate change by integrating field and experimental data.

She has also studied and described the importance of incorporating physiological and life history features into models when predicting the range constraints and shifts of species.

[9] Buckley has also analyzed the influence of a number of variables on a given species' ability to respond to climate change, especially thermal developmental plasticity.

The project integrates a variety of open-source historical and observational data to promote dissemination of the material, and to connect the public to accessible means of understanding climate effects.

[14] The TrEnCh project also uses infrared imaging to better collect data on the thermal conditions of ectotherms, and elucidate the possible resulting climate change impacts on thermally-sensitive processes.