Current Members (2024-Present)

Hannah Monti, President

Terrestrial nutrient cycling, lichen specimens, isotopes, past nitrogen cycle perturbations


Kaci Zarek, Vice President (she/her)

Greenhouse gases, aquatic ecosystems, connections, ecosystem science, redox dynamics


Samantha Davies, Treasurer

Mercury, freshwater, methane


     Alana Margerum (she/her)

Terrestrial biogeochemistry, dendrochronology, nutrient cycling, & plant-soil interactions

Kathy Stenehjem (she/her)

Freshwater biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, ponds, phytoplankton community dynamics

Coral del Mar Valle Rodriguez (she/ella)

Tropical ecology, Ecophys, Drought, Remote Sensing

Hannah De Felice

Arctic, Permafrost, Methane, Biogeochemistry

Allasandra Valdez (she/her)

Grasses & gasses

Alicia McElwee (she/they)

Soil microbial ecology, soil carbon cycling, and soil microbiomes

Jenna Hynes (she/her)

Mercury, Africa, Small-scale gold mining, crops

THIS COULD BE YOU

Potential PhD Biogeochemist interested in BESS! 🙂

Casey Iwamoto (she/her)

Biogeochemistry, trace metals, & restoration

Congrats to our newly graduated PhD Students!

Meredith Theus, Holgerson Lab 

Ethan Duvall (he/him; Flecker Lab)

Ecological stoichiometry, wildlife, sodium, and zoogeochemistry

If  you would like to become a BESS member, please email biogeo@cornell.edu