I am a plant ecophysiologist with broad interests in plant ecology, plant responses to global environmental change & ecosystem drivers, plant anatomy, and grassland systems. My research utilizes a combination of experimental and observational approaches in both field and laboratory environments. My approach/perspective on plant ecophysiology is to combine measurements across a wide range of spatial scales to link cellular-level variation in leaf structure to leaf-level and ecosystem responses to climate change. My research has focuses on grassland systems because of my passion for these systems and the need to increase data on these systems. I intend to focus on grasslands in the future, but am broadly interested in a variety of ecological systems including savannas, forests, and drylands