I am a soil scientist interested in how soil microorganisms interact with their soil environment and help regulate earths climate through their metabolic activities. I earned my Bachelor of Sciences in both Rangeland Resource Science with a concentration in Wildland Soil Science and Microbiology and also have minor in chemistry from Humboldt State University. I am currently a PhD candidate in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research focuses on studying how microbial necromass, a critical pool of soil organic matter, is impacted by experimental soil warming and elucidating mechanisms of adaptive evolution in soil microbial genomes and metagenomes isolated from long term climate change experiments.