I was a research assistant on the Ecotypes Project based at Toolik Field Station in the North Slope of Alaska. We studied the plasticity and response of Arctic cottongrass to warming and changing seasonality with in-situ warming chambers and a reciprocal transplant experiment. I also set up an experiment to look at plant responses to soil drying from precipitation change and permafrost thawing.

Some publications and presentations are availble here:

• Responses of root phenology in ecotypes of Eriophorum vaginatum to transplantation and warming in the Arctic

• Leaf and root phenology and biomass of Eriophorum vaginatum in response to warming in the Arctic 

• Soil drying and active layer deepening decrease productivity across ecotypes of a dominant Arctic sedge 

As lab manager at research technician in the Templer Lab at Boston University, I worked on the Urban New England Project, examining the combined effects of forest fragmentation and urbanization on forest function and biogeochemistry across the landscape of Northeast US secondary forests. We also studied interactions between urbanization, air quality, and ecosystem processes, including at continental scale with data collection and longitudinal analysis of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program network.

Publications from this work are available here here:

• Urbanization and fragmentation have opposing effects on soil nitrogen availability in temperate forest ecosystems 

• Atmospheric wet deposition in urban and suburban sites across the United States 

• Effects of Urbanization and Forest Fragmentation on Atmospheric Nitrogen Inputs and Ambient Nitrogen Oxide and Ozone Concentrations in Mixed Temperate Forests

As an undergraduate, I conducted research with the Porder Lab at Brown University, the Tang, and Melillo Labs at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and the Carey Lab at Babson College. We examined the effects of soil warming on the fluxes of silica through plants, soils, and watersheds, to understand how climate interactions with geochemical weathering and biological cycling would drive the availability of this nutrient to terrestrial and marine ecosystems. We further explored how climactic change in the Arctic would affect the coupled cycling and export of silicon and carbon.

You can read our results here:

• Soil Warming Accelerates Biogeochemical Silica Cycling in a Temperate Forest

• Arctic River Dissolved and Biogenic Silicon Exports—Current Conditions and Future Changes With Warming

• Controls on Riverine Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across an Arctic-Boreal Latitudinal Gradient