Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025

Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology

Research Summary: Climate change is severely impacting agricultural production systems that are under increasing demand to produce food. Further, as conventional agriculture practices degrade soils, build reliance on chemical inputs and contribute significant greenhouse gas emissions, there is an immediate need to alter food production methods. Agroecological practices utilize natural processes to replace inputs like fertilizer and pesticides while building self-regulation feedbacks for increased resilience. My research aims to quantify the impact of farmer-led agroecological practices on soil health outcomes and socioecological resilience. As an interdisciplinary researcher, I use a range of methods including on-farm sampling, lab analyses, data science and interviews.