Megan Mobley

I was raised on a cattle ranch in southeastern Montana. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Sciences, and minor in Biology, from Duke University in Durham, NC , graduating with distinction in May of 2004. My undergraduate thesis on environmental and species controls over N cycling in the alpine was carried out under the advice of Dr. William Bowman of the University of Colorado-Boulder and Dr. William Schlesinger at Duke University. I worked with a forestry consulting firm, Technical Forestry Services, in Wyoming before returning to Duke to pursue a PhD in Ecology with Dr. Daniel Richter. My dissertation work on secondary forest carbon sequestration and cycling was supported by James B. Duke and E. Bayard Halstead Fellowships, and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. I conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Wyoming in the laboratory of Dr. Ingrid Burke, studying semiarid ecosystem biogeochemistry and the responses of these water-limited systems to excess nitrogen. I am a Senior Instructor at OSU, developing and teaching science courses about soil and sustainability for the Corvallis campus and Ecampus. Outside of my work at OSU, I serve on the Board of Directors of the Corvallis Environmental Center and I get outside to play in the soil - hiking, biking, gardening, etc - whenever possible.