While my PhD is large-scale, covering over 500,000 ha (that’s bigger than PEI and Connecticut), this large-scale research is antithetical to some of my undergraduate research projects on the 500 acre campus at Wellesley College. As the first interdisciplinary research assistant for the Wendy Paulon ’69 “Ecology of Place” https://www1.wellesley.edu/paulson initiative, facilitated research among Campus Administrators, Academics, and grounds staff. My work investigated sediment and water flux into a local, and adored, on-campus pond (Paramecium pond for my fellow Wellesley humans). The pond, fed by drinking water since built in the earth 20th century, is finally changing water sources in 2025 (a great example of slow-research!).
Alongside my undergraduate research on Paramecium Pond I was also luck enough to conduct other on-campus work that fueled my fire passions. Below is a photo of me completing an experiment investigating the interaction between invasive species (Brome) and drought on early fire response
