Michelle Cailin Mack

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Michelle Cailin Mack
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Thesis Effects of exotic grass invasion on ecosystem nitrogen dynamics in a Hawaiian woodland  (1998)
Doctoral advisor Carla D'Antonio

Michelle Cailin Mack is an ecologist working on the connections between plants and climate in polar regions. She is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. She currently holds the title of Regent's Professor at Northern Arizona University. [1]

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Education and career

Mack has both a B.A. and a B.S. from Evergreen State College (1990) [2] [3] and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. [4] Following her Ph.D. she worked at the University of Alaska Fairbanks until 2002, first as a postdoc working with F. Stuart Chapin III and then as a research associate in the Institute of Arctic Biology. In 2002 she moved to the University of Florida where she was promoted to professor in 2013. In 2014 she moved to Northern Arizona University. [4]

Research

Mack's research investigations include examining how human activity and the introduction of non-native species impacts terrestrial ecosystems. [5] [6] For example, she has examined how changes in C4 grasses have changed nitrogen cycling in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, [7] and how changes in nutrients change the storage of carbon [8] and bacterial communities [9] in polar regions. Her research includes investigations of the role of fire, [10] [11] thermokarst lakes, [12] and permafrost thawing on carbon cycling in polar regions. [13]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Seven new Regents' professors showcase NAU's research and scholarly excellence – The NAU Review" . Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  2. ↑ "The Evergreen State College 19th Class Commencement Ceremonies" (PDF). Evergreen State College. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ "The Evergreen State College Eighteenth Annual Commencement Ceremonoies" (PDF). Evergreen State College. 1989. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Michelle Cailin Mack CV" (PDF). 2017.
  5. ↑ Mack, Michelle C.; D'Antonio, Caria M. (1998). "Impacts of biological invasions on disturbance regimes". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 13 (5): 195–198. Bibcode:1998TEcoE..13..195M. doi:10.1016/s0169-5347(97)01286-x. ISSN   0169-5347. PMID   21238260.
  6. ↑ D'Antonio, Carla M.; Hughes, R. Flint; Mack, Michelle; Hitchcock, Derek; Vitousek, Peter M. (1998). "The response of native species to removal of invasive exotic grasses in a seasonally dry Hawaiian woodland". Journal of Vegetation Science. 9 (5): 699–712. Bibcode:1998JVegS...9..699D. doi:10.2307/3237288. ISSN   1654-1103. JSTOR   3237288.
  7. ↑ Mack, Michelle C.; D'Antonio, Carla M.; Ley, Ruth E. (2001). "Alteration of Ecosystem Nitrogen Dynamics by Exotic Plants: A Case Study of C4 Grasses in Hawaii". Ecological Applications. 11 (5): 1323–1335. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[1323:AOENDB]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   1939-5582.
  8. ↑ Mack, Michelle C.; Schuur, Edward A. G.; Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia; Shaver, Gaius R.; Chapin, F. Stuart (2004). "Ecosystem carbon storage in arctic tundra reduced by long-term nutrient fertilization". Nature. 431 (7007): 440–443. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..440M. doi:10.1038/nature02887. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   15386009. S2CID   4338923.
  9. ↑ Campbell, Barbara J.; Polson, Shawn W.; Hanson, Thomas E.; Mack, Michelle C.; Schuur, Edward A. G. (2010). "The effect of nutrient deposition on bacterial communities in Arctic tundra soil". Environmental Microbiology. 12 (7): 1842–1854. Bibcode:2010EnvMi..12.1842C. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02189.x. ISSN   1462-2920. PMID   20236166.
  10. ↑ Johnstone, Jill F.; Hollingsworth, Teresa N.; Chapin, F. Stuart; Mack, Michelle C. (2010). "Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest". Global Change Biology. 16 (4): 1281–1295. Bibcode:2010GCBio..16.1281J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02051.x. ISSN   1365-2486. S2CID   9645666.
  11. ↑ Mack, Michelle C.; Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia; Hollingsworth, Teresa N.; Jandt, Randi R.; Schuur, Edward A. G.; Shaver, Gaius R.; Verbyla, David L. (2011). "Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire". Nature. 475 (7357): 489–492. Bibcode:2011Natur.475..489M. doi:10.1038/nature10283. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   21796209. S2CID   4371811.
  12. ↑ Anthony, K. M. Walter; Zimov, S. A.; Grosse, G.; Jones, M. C.; Anthony, P. M.; Iii, F. S. Chapin; Finlay, J. C.; Mack, M. C.; Davydov, S.; Frenzel, P.; Frolking, S. (2014). "A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch". Nature. 511 (7510): 452–456. Bibcode:2014Natur.511..452A. doi:10.1038/nature13560. ISSN   0028-0836. OSTI   1776462. PMID   25043014. S2CID   4455401.
  13. ↑ Schuur, Edward A.G.; Mack, Michelle C. (2018-11-02). "Ecological Response to Permafrost Thaw and Consequences for Local and Global Ecosystem Services". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 49 (1): 279–301. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-121415-032349. ISSN   1543-592X. S2CID   92292300.
  14. ↑ "2021 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
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