Kelsey L. Dowdy, B.A. is an incoming PhD graduate student at UC Santa Barbara and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow. Her research is focused on ecosystem ecology and climate change, specifically how carbon cycling and microbial communities in soils and waterways respond to environmental change, and how these changes affect larger ecosystem processes and feed back into the global climate system.
As an undergraduate studying Biology at UCSB, she received the Florence Riford Scholarship for Science three times and used this funding to pursue studies and field research early on in her undergraduate career in extraordinary places, including the cloud forest of Costa Rica, the Northern Greenland desert, and twice to the Siberian Arctic tundra and larch forests.
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