I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Idaho who studies the post-fire, interactions between belowground microbial communities, soils, and forest dynamics in North American forests. I am particularly interested in how aboveground disturbances (e.g., fire, insects, wind) interact with belowground microbial symbionts, pathogens, and saprotrophs. The causes and consequences of spatial patterns in forests (both above- and below-ground) are another key research interest - particularly as it relates to long-term forest growth, survival and climatic sensitivity.