Our research is focused on microbial diversity and function in extreme environments

​ Currently we are involved in several projects:

The McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project (MCM LTER) is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica.  Initiated in 1993, we are about to start our 25th field season!

Testing the drivers and scale-dependency of plant-fungal-bacterial community co-assembly across the Arctic-a project in collaboration with Dr. Lee Taylor at UNM

I am also the Director of the UNM MARC Program, an NIH funded training program for underrepresented undergraduate students interested in biomedical careers

I am always looking for talented, hard-working, and ambitious students to join the lab.  Contact me for more info.