Graduate Student Email: mshenson@uga.edu Lab: Chung Lab | Miller Plant Sciences Research Research Areas: Ecology & Global Change Research Interests: My research examines the impacts of fire on soil microbial diversity, structure, and function across time. Specifically, I'm interested in understanding how plant and soil microbial communities respond to fire regimes and the mechanisms that drive post-fire reassembly in longleaf pine savannas. Grants: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Garden Club of America Ecological Restoration Fellowship Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research UGA Plant Center Doctoral Dissertation Award Palfrey Student Research Grant Haines Family Field Botany Award Georgia Botanical Society Marie Mellinger Field Botany Grant Education Education: Admission to the University of Georgia Graduate School through the Integrated Plant Sciences Doctoral Program, 2020. B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2017.
