Team

Perry’s research seeks to elucidate the drivers of autumn phenology among trees and forecast how phenological dates might shift under climate change. Full Curriculum Vitae Selected Publications Fitzpatrick, L., Giambuzzi, P.J. et al. (2021) Improving phenology predictions for sparsely observed species through fusion of botanical collections and citizen-science. Climate Change Read more…

Keven is a PhD student coadvised by Dr. Matt Bowker and Dr. Anita Antoninka. She is interested in how communities respond to disturbance in extreme environments, and her research is primarily focused on using biological soil crusts for restoration applications, their tolerances for extreme environments, and their responses to global Read more…

Satya is broadly interested in biogeochemical transformations of carbon in anaerobic ecosystems and how these pathways are altered under interacting facets of climate change. Currently, she is using quantitative isotope probing (qSIP) to understand microbial metabolisms and methane dynamics in wetlands of the future.   Full Curriculum Vitae

Saeed is fascinated by nutrient dynamics in streams. He will investigate how the interactive effects of temperature and nutrient levels influence ecosystem metabolism (organic matter breakdown) in streams. He hopes that his research will help to understand the role of nutrients in stream responses.

Emma is interested in quantifying the timing and magnitude of the permafrost carbon feedback, specifically in understanding how susceptible carbon in deep soils is to decomposition and emission to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas. A changing arctic impacts everyone and she strives to improve how science is communicated to inform Read more…

Nick Link is a PhD student in the Mack Lab co-advised by Michelle Mack and Xanthe Walker. He is interested in fire ecology at the landscape scale, and his research focuses on ecologically informed fuel treatments, their capacity to reduce wildfire risk, and downstream ecosystem impacts across Alaska and the Read more…

Jolie is a PhD student at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) and works under the advisement of Dr. Bruce Hungate. A particular curiosity to dive deep into the microscopic world driving Earth’s carbon cycle in soil has led her to study how soils microbes respond to climate Read more…