My doctoral degree was earned in Environmental Science from The Ohio State University and I have been a Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays scholar.  Additionally, I have a track record of successful grant writing.  My professional background includes several years of teaching, experience as a business strategy analyst at a Fortune 100 company, and first authorships in journals such as Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment, Microbial Spectrum, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, and Chemosphere to name a few.

 

My postdoctoral affiliation is in the lab of Professor Trinity Hamilton. University of Minnesota.  My research expertise includes microbial and invertebrate community ecology of different habitats - cryoconite holes, streams, wetlands, moss, algae, and thixotropic mud, and relating this knowledge to climate change, species interactions, assembly processes, and geomicrobiology.  I conduct glacier ecology research in Alaska, and have conducted research and lived in a Kham Tibetan village in the upper reaches of the Mekong River and at Mt. Gongga, in the temperate monsoonal region of the Tibet Plateau.  

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I would especially like to thank the National Science Foundation as I took a leap from an international corporate career to a career in science. Now, isn't that interesting?