Cara FieldsGraduate Student

Cara is interested in carbon cycling and carbon sequestration in trees, especially really old trees. She graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in biology and a concentration in ecology, evolution, and marine biology. At Bowdoin, she researched the effects of temperature and drought stress on ponderosa pine physiology. In her doctoral research, she will be focusing on nonstructural carbon and radiocarbon in tree rings to explore how trees store and allocate carbon.