Harvard Forest
ESA 2022
I attended the 2022 ESA conference in Montréal, Canada and it was incredible. This was my first academic conference and it was great to network and communitate with others in the ecological community. I presented research from my Senior Thesis and from the Harvard Forest SRPE in collaboration with my Harvard Forest collaborator, Jennie Wuest. Thank you so much to Jennie for this beautiful poster design!
Senior Honors Thesis
In the spring of 2022 I completed my Senior Honors Thesis at Wheaton College MA. My thesis was titled "Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors" and was a continuation of the Harvard Forest SRPE research project. This was an incredible experience that taught me so much about the scientific process. One of my biggest take-aways from this experience was that even non-significant results are still results. It is diffcult to devote so much time to an idea and not achive the results that you expected. Yet, these non-significant results can still be really helpful and provide you with information that can help you develop new research questions.
Harvard Forest SRPE
This summer I had the incredible opportunity to work as an undergraduate research intern for Harvard Forest. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all research was conducted remotely. This remote research entailed conducting data analysis on previously collected data sets. I analyzed fungal community responses to soil warming, nitrogen deposition, and non-native plant invasions. This was an amazing experience and it made me even more excited to continue in my career of ecological research. I couldn't have done this without my research mentors and my fellow cohort members, so a huge thank you to them.
Research may be remote, but I still adventured into my backyard to get a feel for the soil sampling process.