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	Duncan Menge Associate Professor Research and teaching interests: Ecosystem ecology, theoretical ecology, biogeochemistry, evolutionary ecology, global change science, plain old ecology. Contact: dm2972[at]columbia[dot]edu, (212) 854-6889, @DuncanMenge
	Palani Akana Ph.D. student pra2116[at]columbia[dot]edu Research interests: I study how nutrient dynamics within ecosystems transform, and are transformed by, the biotic structure and functioning of ecosystems. I am particularly interested in connecting ecological processes at different spatial scales, for example how the physiological processes of nutrient acquisition and use by individual plants relate to ecosystem-scale measures of productivity, diversity, and community composition. CV
	Aria Carreras Pereira Ph.D. student kac2252[at]columbia[dot]edu Research interests: I am broadly interested in mycorrhizal networks, forest ecology, biogeochemistry, ethnobotany, succession and climate change. My research is motivated by the principal question of "how do trees, both as individuals and in a forest community, use a mycelial network to communicate?" Within that question, I focus on nutrient transfer between trees via these networks.
	Savannah Cooley Ph.D. student sc4751[at]columbia[dot]edu Research interests: My research stems from my personal and professional mission of playing a role in mitigating climate change. I focus on ecosystem regeneration dynamics at landscape and global scales. In particular, I am interested in characterizing how forest regeneration trajectories influence ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, nitrogen, and water. To investigate these exchanges, my work involves the use of a combination of remote sensing and process-based modeling. CV
	Ayanna Butler Ph.D. student ab5203[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Patrick Cito Namulisa Ph.D. student starting Fall 2022 pcn2115[at]columbia[dot]edu Research interests: I am broadly interested in carbon and nitrogen dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems under changing climate, and other global change drivers including warming and elevated CO2.
	Jessie Motes Ph.D. student starting Fall 2022 jim2137[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Vanessa Lau M.A. student vml2135[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Emma Lauterbach M.A. student el3133[at]columbia[dot]edu Research interests: I am interested in fire ecology and the role climate change plays in altering the natural fire regime. I'm currently studying how wildfires alter nutrients, hydrology, and permafrost in Arctic ecosystems.
	Brandon Wilson Radcliffe Technician baw2169[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Eva Das Undergraduate ed2954[at]barnard[dot]edu
	Emma Ziessler Undergraduate elz2109[at]barnard[dot]edu
	Lab Alumni
	Amelia Wolf Postdoc 2015-2018 Assistant Professor, UT Austin amywolf[at]gmail[dot]com
	Benton Taylor Ph.D. 2018 Assistant Professor, Harvard Formerly postdoc, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center bentonneiltaylor[at]gmail[dot]com
	Thomas Bytnerowicz Ph.D. 2020 Stengl-Wyer Postdoc, UT Austin tbytnero[at]gmail[dot]com
	Andrew Quebbeman Ph.D. 2021 Data Analyst, The Farmer's Dog andrew.quebbeman[at]gmail[dot]com
	Sian Kou-Giesbrecht Ph.D. 2021 Postdoc, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis sian.kougiesbrecht[at]gmail[dot]com
	Anika Staccone Ph.D. 2021 NSF Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Fellow, Lead System Scientist at Lotic Labs anika.petach[at]gmail[dot]com
	Alex Huddell Ph.D. 2021 ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, EPA alex.huddell[at]gmail[dot]com
	Wenying Liao M.A. 2015 Postdoc, Harvard Formerly Ph.D. student, Princeton wenyingl[at]princeton[dot]edu
	Emily Jager M.A. 2019 NYC Parks Department and Walking Palms Global Health eaj2145[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Alexa Helms M.A. 2020 ah3597[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Isobel Mifsud M.A. 2021 im2501[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Megan Wilcots B.S. 2018 Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota mew2210[at]columbia[dot]edu
	Colleen Schmidt B.S. 2020 cbs2166[at]columbia[dot]edu

Menge Lab, E3B department, Columbia University
dm2972[at]columbia[dot]edu, (212) 854-6889
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