ABOUT ME...

My primary research in my current position focuses on three main questions that span microbial to community to ecosystem ecology: 1) How do microbes influence plants? 2) How do plants influence microbes? And 3) what are the implications of climate and environmental change on these relationships? 

I use bioinformatics, citizen science, long term environmental monitoring, and field/lab experiments to evaluate controls on species' range limits and functioning along environmental gradients in natural, managed, and anthropogenically disturbed ecosystems.

See some highlights of the citizen science research (and EPIC scenery...if you're into that sort of thing) with Earthwatch International I've led in the NWT below:

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A bright, winter day over the treeline ecotone near Churchill, Manitoba.