Spectrochemical Characterization of Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics

Understanding the complex relationship between ecosystems and how they respond to different environmental stressors is a grand challenge within chemical sensing and ecosystem ecology. I am specifically interested in how metabolomic, elemental, and spectral profiles change during various stress events such as drought, disease, heavy metal contamination, etc. for use as a biomonitoring tool. The goal of my research is to understand the how ecosystem can be used as chemical sensor to better detect and classify stressors and chemicals of interest.