Kathy Kelsey

Kathy Kelsey

About Kathy

Kathy Kelsey, postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage

“We’re out here doing biochemical research, specifically looking at the effects of climate change on biogeochemistry which is really looking at how nutriments move through ecosystems. So our work involves a lot of diverse pieces of equipment because we are measuring things about the soil, we’re measuring things about the vegetation.”

“The way that it is really important and highly influential is because this result highlights the fact that not only is climate change an important force that’s going to be altering future carbon cycles but we have to look at these interactions of other factors that may be specific to a location. Like here the interaction of advancing growing season and goose herbivory . . . together those two are controlling local carbon cycling.”