I am a Soil Microbiologist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NH.  My research explores the intricate relationships among microorganisms and their surrounding environment, including their ecosystem impacts to address problems on clean-up, range sustainability, and detection. I take a holistic systems-based approach by combining empirical laboratory and field measurements with stand-off sensing techniques like terrestrial laser scanning and modeling efforts to answer ecosystem-level research questions such as shifts in organisms as a result of climate change.  I have addressed and integrated many of these topics into her research to understand the permafrost microbiome, bioremediation in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic, and soil biocrusts.  By generating high resolution microbial sequencing and metagenomics data, me and my collaborators attempt to statistically describe the natural environment and how it changes with perturbations, particularly in extreme environments such as the cold.