A graduate of Duke University's Program in Ecology, and then a Smithsonian Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD, I will soon begin working at NOAA in the Habitat Conservation Office as a AAAS Science and Policy Fellow as of Fall 2010. In terms of my research interests, I am broadly interested in how human environmental change is affecting ecosystem function and nutrient cycling in particular.
During my postdoc at SERC I worked in Pat Megonigal's Biogeochemistry Lab examining how plant species and soil conditions influence microbial dyanmics and greenhouse gas production in tidal wetlands.
My dissertation research examined how different wetland restoration strategies affect ecosystem function determining how plant functional diversity and soil properties influence denitrification potential and how soil amendments influence the development of a restored wetland.
More details about my research can be found on my research page.
I am also very interested in teaching and mentoring. I discuss these interests in greater detail on my teaching and professional development pages.
