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Nature-based Climate Solutions

This research contributes to our understanding of how photosynthesis responds to seasonal phenology and environmental constraints in forest ecosystems. I ask questions that span scales of space and time using a combination of intensive field campaigns, ecosystem level monitoring, and physiological modeling. My three dissertation chapters include:1) GPP and.

Ecosystem Ecology lecture course for upper division and graduate students that examines the biological, physical, and chemical factors that control storage and cycling of the major elements within terrestrial ecosystems.

Mount Lemmon, Arizona, United States

In this role, I served as a graduate mentor providing K-12 students inquiry-based science education in the Santa Catalina mountains.

Tucson, Arizona Area

For my masters thesis I initiated and led an intensive field campaign in a subalpine conifer forest to assess the potential for the photochemical reflective index (PRI) to be used as an indicator of photosynthetic efficiency and downregulation. Methodologies used: Leaf-level gas exchange, PAM fluorometry, hyperspectral reflectance, in-situ top of canopy.

As a graduate mentor, I was responsible for managing 18 community and school educational gardens in underserved communities across Tucson

Lom Kao, Phetchabun, Thailand

I taught EFL to middle and high school aged students with English proficiency ranging from low to non-existent. Challenges included planning lessons that were fun and engaging, teaching with considerable language barriers and limited resources, and management of large and dynamic classrooms in a cross-cultural setting.

Yosemite National Park

Botanical off trail surveys for rare and invasive species-advanced plant identification; Invasive Plant Management; Assisted in restoration projects and vegetation monitoring; Learned challenges to balancing public land preservation with human use

Lawrence, Kansas Area

1) Microbial metabolic response to temperature and relative C and N availability in boreal organic soils2) Harvest sustainability and ethnobotany of the medicinal plant oshaMethods used: stable isotope analysis, factorial design soil incubation experiment, gas chromatrography, forest experimental transects

University Of Michigan Biologcal Station

Soil respiration response to stand age and disturbance history in a 168-year forest chronosequenceMethods: soil respiration measurements in experimental transects

University Of Arizona

Temperature Effects on the Physiological Ecology of Conifer ForestsMethods: leaf photosynthesis (gas-exchange) measurements

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Master'S Degree, Geography

Bachelor’S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, 3.93

Activities and Societies: Society for the advancement of Native Americans and Chicanos in Science (SACNAS) Initiative for Maximizing.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Studies, 3.93

Activities and Societies: Active member of Envrirons: a campus environmental advocacy group.

Eddy Covariance Flux Science