Education:

University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL

-Plant Biology Ph.D. program

Knox College, Galesburg, IL

-B.A. Biology, French 2008

Research:

I am generally interested in understanding the impacts of climate change on crop production.  Currently my concentration involves exploring the influence that increased temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations will have on soybean.  This is an area with little documentation under fully open-air conditions. 

I hope to increase the current knowledge of temperature/CO2 interactive effects using the soyFACE facilities and to strengthen predictions of global food supply under climate change with information from the parameter of temperature.