I am a microbiologist interested in non-invasive methods for evaluating ecosystem health. As a PhD student, I evaluate the ecology and applications of environmental nucleic acids, focusing on 1) the state and degradation of molecules when they are released into the aquatic environment, 2) their transportation in networks that simulate lotic ecosystems, and 3) the use of environmental transcriptomics to monitor the physiological responses of communities under environmental stress. I combine laboratory experiments with highly replicated field experiments at LEAP.