​I am a plant physiological ecologist interested in environmental and climate change impacts on carbon cycling. My research aims to scale quantitatively between leaf-level processes and ecosystem function with the goals of:

(1) understanding fundamental controls of carbon cycling in plants in changing environments;
(2) using field and experimental data to refine regional and global representations of carbon cycling; 
(3) developing more informed projections of carbon cycling under future climate scenarios.

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• Ph.D. Ecology & Evolution, Columbia University, 2013 
• M.A. Education, City College of New York, 2008
• B.A. Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Assistant Professor 

Department of Biology
Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN 55105

mheskel [at] gmail [dot] com
mheskel [at] macalester [dot] edu
twitter: @MaryHeskel