Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology

Research Summary: Tandra Fraser was the Executive Director of Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative from 2014-2016 based at the School. She is a soil molecular biologist interested in the response of soil microbes to anthropogenic-induced changes. Her research has focused on linking soil bacterial communities to metabolic functions for biochemical cycling of phosphorus in agricultural and grassland soils of the Northern Great Plains. Tandra has worked with researchers, community groups and farmers across Canada. After completing a M.Sc. in soil science at the University of Saskatchewan, she spent a year working with farmers in Honduras on a project to improve nutrient management on remote hillside farms. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in 2015.