Emily is a DPhil candidate in the Biodiversity and Earth Observation Lab studying the below-ground community composition of bacteria and fungi in soils spanning the tropical forest to tropical savanna ecosystem gradient in West Africa. Her research sits within the Ghanaian stream of LNCR, helping to expand its remit into the field of mycology and other microbial analyses to understand the extent of the relationship between the patterns of broad ecosystem functioning and those followed by these taxonomic groups that are much less often examined.
Prior to this degree, she completed her Masters in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management at Oxford, exploring in her dissertation the drivers of biomass change across this same rainfall gradient in Ghana. As an undergraduate she attended Barnard College of Columbia University in the United States, where she studied environmental science and human rights and graduated with Magna Cum Laude distinction. She completed her undergraduate dissertation on the analysis of lateral westerly wind movement over the past 150,000 years through hydrogen isotopes extracted from oceanic sediments.
