1. Creating sustainable biofertilizers by harnessing the interactions among certain bacteria and fungi (postdoctoral research). 2. Exploring nitrogen movement from bacteria to fungi to plant using experimental systems (postdoctoral research). 3. Canopy Mushroom Diversity (National Geographic)
Completed Projects
1. Root-associated fungal communities in canopy and forest floor soils of old-growth bigleaf maple trees. 2. Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in canopy and forest floor soils of old-growth bigleaf maple trees. 3. Benchmarking a molecular pipeline for fungal community analysis on the MinION Nanopore Sequencer.\\ 4. Fungal colonization in adventitious and forest floor roots of bigleaf maple trees. 5. Nutrient leachates from canopy soils. 6. Microbial community response to prairie restoration treatments. 7. How prairie restoration treatments affect soil nitrogen dynamics.
Collaborations (past and present)
1. Decomposition and carbon dynamics in old-growth temperate rainforests (collaboration). 2. Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities along salmon fertilized stream transects (collaboration). 3. Gaseous emissions from canopy soils. 4. The impact of climate change and topography on spatial and temporal NPP dynamics. 5. Incorporating fungi into local scale predictive models.. 6. Exploring the contents of a native arbuscular mycorrhizal seed inoculum. 7. An educational trip to your local park - collaboration with a local community college. 8. Total and epiphytic litter under the canopy of Acer macrophyllum in an old-growth temperate rainforest. 9. Olympic National Park Centennial BioBlitz lead scientist. 10. Surveying canopy diversity in tall trees located in the Peruvian Amazon.