Meeting roles in:
Measurements, Models, and More: Cross-Disciplinary Science to Understand and Predict Rapidly Changing Processes at the Top of the World
Assessing New Process Representations in ELM at the Pan-Arctic Scale
Cross-scale Data Integration from UASs, Airborne, and Satellites Uncovers the Heterogeneous Trajectory and Drivers of Vegetation Recovery 21 Years after a Wildfire in a Boreal Forest in Alaska
Coupled Surface and Subsurface Controls on Ground Thermal Dynamics in Discontinuous Permafrost Regions
Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Measurable Soil Organic Matter Pools in Deciduous Forest Exposed to Atmospheric CO₂ Enrichment
Carbon Losses as CO₂ 21 Years After Wildfires in a Boreal Forest in Interior Alaska
Belowground Dynamics Shape the Response of Peatland Biogeochemistry to Warming and Elevated CO₂
Dr. Colleen Iversen is an ecosystem ecologist who uses a variety of field and laboratory techniques to understand and predict how ecosystems are shaped by environmental change. Her work takes her from upland forests to flooded peatlands to thawing Arctic tundra, chasing a better understanding of the secret lives of roots hidden beneath the soil surface, and she leads a team that curates the largest root trait database in the world. She works at the millimeter scale to answer a global question: how will ecosystems respond to the climate of the future? Colleen is a Distinguished Staff Scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Group Leader of the Plant-Soil Interactions group. She is the Director of the NGEE Arctic project, a lead investigator of the Fine-Root Ecology Database (FRED), and she previously led the Belowground Tasks component of the SPRUCE project. Colleen is also an Associate Editor at the international plant journal New Phytologist and an elected Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, and she was a member of the inaugural cohort of ‘New Voices’ at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Colleen grew up exploring the fields and farms of mid-Michigan, and she received her BS at Hope College. She continued to move southward for her graduate work, receiving her MS at the University of Notre Dame and her PhD at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Colleen sees science communication as the foundation for a shared understanding of society’s future, and she has shared her scientific vision on Public Radio International’s ‘Science Friday’, and in the Alda School’s ‘Flame Challenge’, as well as in organized symposia, sessions, and workshops. For more information on Colleen, visit www.colleeniversen.com.