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Lab TechnicianDepartment: Lab Techs, Past Members Avarna is a lab assistant in Whendee Silver’s lab. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in May 2017 with a major in Biological Sciences and a minor in Environmental Studies. She also recently completed a coding bootcamp called Hackbright Academy to become a Software Engineer. She loves converting excel worksheets into python…

Postdoctoral ResearcherDepartment: Past Members, Post Docs Christine is a postdoctoral researcher whose work focuses on the impacts of global change on tropical nutrient cycling.  She is currently investigating the drivers of soil greenhouse gas emissions in a Puerto Rican wet tropical forest and asking questions about the impacts of climate change on below ground nutrient cycling.  Christine…

Postdoctoral ResearcherDepartment: Past Members, Post Docs E-mail:yanglin@berkeley.edu Research Website: http://ylinterra.com Education Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010-2015 M.Sc. Soil Science, University of Alberta, 2007-2010 B.Sc. Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, China, 2003-2007 Field of Study Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and applied spatial statistics Research Description I am a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Whendee Silver’s lab. I am…

Undergraduate ResearcherDepartment: Past Members, Undergraduates My name is Alicia Sadowski, and I have been working at the Silver Lab since Fall 2017.  I am a 4th year undergraduate majoring in Environmental Science and minoring in Marine Science and Global Poverty Practice.  I am interested in tropical forest ecology, specifically changing interactions as climate change introduces variable factors…

Undergraduate ResearcherDepartment: Past Members, Undergraduates  Keane Flynn, age 21, senior studying CRS, studies freshwater ecology and in his spare time enjoys going on walks with his hound Roxie.

Undergraduate ResearcherDepartment: Past Members, Undergraduates I am a 4th year undergraduate at Berkeley studying Integrative Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology emphasis), with a minor in Linguistics. I am interested in conservation in general, and am glad to be able to contribute to projects that help us understand our planet and how to help it. Outside of…

Postdoctoral Researcher Sintana Vergara is a Postdoctoral Scientist studying controls on emission of greenhouse gases from the composting of organic waste (manure, food waste, green waste). Her interest in waste can be traced back to a course she took in college called “Garbage.” Since then, she has conducted research on the climate benefits of reuse…

Postdoctoral Researcher Field of Study Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, ecological stoichiometry, stable isotopes geochemistry. Research Description I am a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Whendee Silver’s lab. I am using various isotopic tracers to investigate the how changes in the chemical form and stoichiometric composition of soil substrates will affect the cycling of carbon (C) and phosphorus…

Lab Technician I am a transplant from Vermont and lab technician at the Silver Lab, working primarily on the Marin Carbon Project. I graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in Environmental Sciences and my academic interests include sustainable agriculture, GIS and mapping, languages, and microbes. Before joining the Silver Lab I worked…

Title: Assistant Project Scientist I am interested in the intersections between plant ecophysiology, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and global change. In the Silver lab I am studying how rainfall, vegetation, and land management impact greenhouse gas fluxes of California grassland soils. I am also currently involved with projects to investigate fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by symbiotic foliar…