Research in our lab centers on microbial ecology, microbial diversity and nutrient cycling processes in soils and streams. Our main goal is to build knowledge on the maintenance and sustainability of managed and 'natural' ecosystem services, within the context of disturbance and global change, through the integration of perspectives at microbial and ecosystem scales.

Ongoing research themes include understanding how grassland management (fire, grazing, fertilization) and drought legacies affect soil microbial community structure and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling functions, the microbial mechanisms underlying linked C and N biogeochemistry, the hydrologic and nutrient conditions that affect stream microbial diversity and function, concurrent development of soil organic matter and microbial communities on fresh parent material (volcanic ash), and the role of the microbiome in mediating vertebrate development and health. See our "People" and "Projects" pages for more detail.

We welcome and value perspectives that are outside our individual ranges of familiarity. We learn from one another, and we know more together.

If you are interested in learning more, get in touch!