Associate Professor, Genetics - GIDP | Associate Professor, Ecosystem Genomics | Assistant Professor, Hydrology / Atmospheric Sciences | Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor, Environmental Science | Associate Professor, Global Change - GIDP
I am an interdisciplinary scientist working at the intersection of functional microbiology and atmospheric chemistry.I have been an Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) since January 2017. I currently have faculty affiliations with the BIO5 Institute, the department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP), and the Global Change GIDP. I was the Director of the Biosphere 2 Tropical Rain Forest from 2018-2021.
Microorganisms have produced dramatic shifts in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, and they continue to drive significant exchange of trace gases and aerosols between the land, oceans, and atmosphere. Many microbe-mediated processes have a leading-order impact on climate variability, are themselves susceptible to climate change (potential for feedbacks), and are poorly understood (e.g., CH4, N2O, biological particles). In terrestrial ecosystems, soil microorganisms provide benefits to society (ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling), which depend strongly on land use (urban, rural, agricultural, natural) and land surface type. The Meredith lab focuses on improving the process-based understanding of the environmental and biological drivers of microbe-mediated trace gas fluxes using an interdisciplinary set of laboratory and observational methods. Linking gene to function for microbe-mediated gas fluxes Determining key controls on ecosystem trace gas fluxes Majors: majors with biological, ecosystem, or environmental focus
Microorganisms have produced dramatic shifts in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, and they continue to drive significant exchange of trace gases and aerosols between the land, oceans, and atmosphere. Many microbe-mediated processes have a leading-order impact on climate variability, are themselves susceptible to climate change (potential for feedbacks), and are poorly understood (e.g., CH4, N2O, biological particles). In terrestrial ecosystems, soil microorganisms provide benefits to society (ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling), which depend strongly on land use (urban, rural, agricultural, natural) and land surface type. The Meredith lab focuses on improving the process-based understanding of the environmental and biological drivers of microbe-mediated trace gas fluxes using an interdisciplinary set of laboratory and observational methods. Linking gene to function for microbe-mediated gas fluxes Determining key controls on ecosystem trace gas fluxes Majors: majors with biological, ecosystem, or environmental focus