There is a place for you in this lab!
Looking for undergraduate students interested in plants, climate change, data analysis, science communication, leaves, roots, respiration, photosynthesis, seasons, literature searches, writing, science pedagogy, and so on. Contact me via email to learn more about opportunities during the academic year and summer. I am open to collaborations across institutions and disciplines.
Looking for undergraduate students interested in plants, climate change, data analysis, science communication, leaves, roots, respiration, photosynthesis, seasons, literature searches, writing, science pedagogy, and so on. Contact me via email to learn more about opportunities during the academic year and summer. I am open to collaborations across institutions and disciplines.
Current lab members
Saiido Noor ('23, Biology & Data Science)
- Saiido will be working with urban ecology datasets based in the Twin Cities as well as other Midwestern cities to examine historic and current inequities and how they relate to plant and ecological variables. Saiido has recently worked at UPenn and Scripps for summer research internships!
Lab Alumni
Jennings Mergenthal ('21, Biology & History)
- Jennings is now at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In the lab, Jennings worked on the intersection of climate change, plant physiology, and place-based history using herbarium collections, and is a co-author with Mary on a book chapter about environmental justice pedagogy. Outside of the lab, Jennings also analyzes and produces anti-colonial historical maps.
- Kori is now in graduate school at UC Berkeley and helped visually document the lab's activities.
- Elizabeth is now a practicing entomologist and ecologist technician at University of Illinois. A manuscript based on her senior thesis on redlining and NOx pollution was accepted at Elementa.
- Jean focused on the leaf-level physiological response of two species across ages and micro-environments at Ordway.
- Lianna examined stomatal responses in blueberry under warming and elevated CO2 at SPRUCE.
- Ally examined photosynthetic responses to light and season in sub-canopy trees at Ordway.
- Arceus examined the carbon storage and biodiversity on Macalester's St. Paul campus.
- Caitlyn focused on autumn tree phenology in a deciduous and evergreen species and how it related to non-structural carbohydrates through independent research at The Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory. She is now pursuing a Masters in GIS at Lehman College in NYC. Caitlyn will start a PhD program in Geography in Fall 2021.
- Melissa worked on pine physiology under current and warmed conditions through independent research at The Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama and is now pursuing a degree in school counseling at Hunter College in NYC.
