Maya is a PhD student in the lab of Professors Michelle Mack and Xanthe Walker. She has previously worked at the Harvard Forest LTER and the Toolik Field Station. Her current research is based in Interior Alaska, where she specifically studies how wildfires impact nutrient cycling, carbon storage, and below-ground structures across plant communities.
Ecological memory stored in a landscape can help an ecosystem recover from disturbances like fire and outbreaks of disease. But what happens when climate warming disrupts that process? How long before ecological memories stored in Read more…
A study led by Northern Arizona University offers new evidence that a common framework to sort bacteria into two lifestyles doesn’t easily apply to bacteria living in wild soil. The findings, published in The ISME Journal, show Read more…
In 2002, the Odyssey probe discovered evidence of past ice on Mars. The U.S. Congress authorized the Iraq War resolution. The Anaheim Angels won the World Series. And in a meadow 15 miles north of Read more…