Team

Victoria Monsaint-Queeney

Tori’s experience is in anaerobic soil environments, specifically wetland soils. In Ecoss, her research will focus on using qSIP to quantify biogeochemical cycles in the Alaskan tundra. She hopes that her research will contribute to a better understanding of microbial communities and their role in soil biogeochemical cycles as these Read more
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Jonas Noomah

Jonas is studying the ecological effects of bark beetle outbreaks around his home on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. He is interested in the future of Alaskan forests and the repercussions of disturbance on carbon cycling. Full Curriculum Vitae
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Callie Ochs

Callie is interested in looking at how fungal foliar endophytes mediate leaf litter decomposition in aquatic and terrestrial environments. She is more generally interested in the microbial ecology of leaf-litter decomposition in streams. She will be using qSIP to answer these questions.
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Anastasia Pulak

Anastasia is interested in understanding how climate change is altering ecosystem structure and function and what consequences these changes have for nutrient cycling, plant-soil-microbe interactions, and carbon storage. She is particularly interested in changes in disturbance regime and plant community composition in Arctic and boreal systems.   Full Curriculum Vitae
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Amanda Rouillard

Amanda is employing quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP) to explore how fluctuations in temperature can influence the composition and abundance of fungal communities in freshwater streams. Her research aims to understand responses of fungi to environmental changes, particularly in relation to leaf litter decomposition and nutrient cycling in the face Read more
By Alanna Patterson, ago

Austin Simonpietri

Austin’s research is focused on forest biogeochemistry and how global climate change may influence its driving factors. As a graduate student at NAU he would like to address how the soil co2 efflux in a sub-alpine environment is influenced by its primary contributors, root and microbe respiration, at different time Read more
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Julia Warren

Julia Warren is a PhD student in Dr. Ted Schuur’s Lab. She is interested in understanding how a warming Arctic is impacting the global carbon cycle. Specifically, she will be looking at methane emissions from permafrost thaw and associated radiocarbon dating of green house gases. She hopes to gain a Read more
By Noah Watkins, ago

Natasha Wesely

Natasha is an ecological informatics PhD student in the T3 program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) at NAU. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in addition to an NSF NRT T3 fellow. Her research interests broadly include ecosystem modeling, model-data fusion, terrestrial carbon cycling, Read more
By Stephanie Mayer, ago

Savannah Wilson

Savannah is a master’s student co-advised by Michelle Mack and Xanthe Walker. She is interested in forest ecology and plant community response to disturbance and climate change. Specifically, she wants to understand how plant communities in boreal forest ecosystems are changing in response to wildfires and climate change. Full Curriculum Read more
By Alanna Patterson, ago

Mike Zampini

Mike’s research focuses on the pathways of carbon and nitrogen during leaf litter decomposition in stream ecosystems. At NAU, Mike hopes to understand changes in the breakdown of organic matter within the context of global change, and predict how these shifts might impact the global carbon budget.
By Ecoss, ago