ARIA CARRERAS PEREIRA
PH.D CANDIDATE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a Ph.D student in the Menge Lab broadly interested in mycorrhizal networks, forest ecology, biogeochemistry, ethnobotany, succession and climate change.
My research is motivated by the principal question of “how do trees, both as individuals and in a forest community, use mycelial networks?” Within that question, I focus on nutrient transfer between trees via these networks.
My long-term goal is to characterize belowground biotic and abiotic forest dynamics that may contribute to community composition and forest resilience.
News
August 2024- Presented at ESA in Long Beach, California
August 2024- Maya, Sarah, Lauren, and Marina present their summer research at the SRI Poster Presentation at Barnard
May 2024- Congrats to Maya, Sarah, Laurina, and Marina on their acceptance into the Summer Research Institute & Welcome to the Merry Mycorrhizae lab!
May 2024- Congratulations to Tamia and Sonja on finishing their senior theses and graduating with their BS!
March 2024- Awarded the David Redden Conservation Science Fund
March 2024- Awarded the Incite Institute Dissertation Grant
March 2024- Awarded the Provost Diversity Fellows Small Grants Program
March 2024- Dissertation Proposal Defense!
August 2023- Presented at ESA in Portland, Oregon
August 2023- Tamia, Sonja, Angie, and Marisol presented their summer research at the SRI Poster Presentation at Barnard
May 2023- Congrats to Tamia, Sonja, Angie, and Marisol on their acceptance into the Summer Research Institute & Welcome to the Merry Mycorrhizae lab!
April 2023- Traveled to Mexico with the McAlvay lab to investigate soil biogeochemistry and agroecology practices of milpa crop systems of the Wixárika