Who we are IGCB Leadership Peter Reich Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB) [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems IGCB Project: Soil Fungi IGCB Project: Forest Phenology IGCB Project: Albedo IGCB Project: Forest Carbon Storage IGCB Project: Grassland Function IGCB Project: Soil Biogeochemistry IGCB Project: Competition and Climate Sarah Raubenheimer IGCB Program Manager and Research Specialist [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Grassland Function IGCB Project: Competition and Climate Thiago Gonçalves Souza Head of IGCB Postdoc Development; Adjunct Research Scientist [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Habitat Loss IGCB Faculty Steering Committee Greg Dick Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info Inés Ibáñez Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management (School for the Environment and Sustainability) [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems IGCB Project: Albedo Marie O'Neill Professor of Environmental Health Sciences [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Pollen Health Effects IGCB Project: Colonialism & Public Health Peter Reich Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB) [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems IGCB Project: Soil Fungi IGCB Project: Forest Phenology IGCB Project: Albedo IGCB Project: Forest Carbon Storage IGCB Project: Grassland Function IGCB Project: Soil Biogeochemistry Nate Sanders Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Habitat Loss IGCB Project: Mountain Warming IGCB Project: Seasonal Rainfall Nathan Sheldon Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Lake Chemistry Allison Steiner Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Pollen Health Effects Donald R. Zak Alexander H. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Ecology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Soil Fungi Kai Zhu Associate Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management and Geospatial Data Sciences [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Soil Fungi IGCB Project: Forest Phenology IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen IGCB Project: Wildfire and Carbon Cycling IGCB Project: Soil Fungal Biodiversity Affiliate Faculty Karen Alofs Assistant Professor Ecosystem Science and Management Water Conservation + Restoration [email protected] More info Jacob Allgeier Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Human-Wildlife Interaction Regina Baucom Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies [email protected] More info Jennifer Blesh Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Gideon Bradburd Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Neil Carter Associate Professor, PI of Conservation & Coexistence Group [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Wildfire and Carbon Cycling IGCB Project: Human-Wildlife Interaction Aimée Classen Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of Biological Station [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Mountain Warming IGCB Project:Snow Melt Meghan Duffy Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies [email protected] More info Alexandra Paige Fischer Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Post-fire Regeneration Johannes Foufopoulos Associate Professor Ecosystem Science and Management Conservation + Restoration [email protected] More info Benjamin Goldstein Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Thiago Gonçalves Souza Head of IGCB Postdoc Development; Adjunct Research Scientist [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Habitat Loss Dimitris Gounaridis Research Specialist, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Carina Gronlund Research Assistant Professor, Social Environment and Health Program [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Pollen Health Effects Jennifer Head Assistant Professor, Institute for Global Change Biology, School of Public Health [email protected] More info Mia Howard LSA Collegiate Fellow, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Meha Jain Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Timothy James Professor and Curator of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Jenan Kharbush Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info Gretchen Keppel-Aleks Associate Professor Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Post-fire Regeneration Naomi Levin Associate Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info Geoffrey Lewis Research Specialist, Center for Sustainable Systems [email protected] More info Mark Lindquist Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Ivette Perfecto James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice [email protected] More info Joshua Newell Professor School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) / Program in the Environment (PiTE) [email protected] More info Mohammed Ombadi Assistant Professor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering [email protected] More info María Natalia Umaña Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems IGCB Project: Hurricanes and Forests John Vandermeer Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Runzi Wang Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Brian Weeks Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability. Affiliated Researcher, Bird Division, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Migratory Birds IGCB Project: Human-Wildlife Interaction Ben Winger Assistant Professor and Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology and Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Migratory Birds Research Fellows Tsun Fung (Tom) Au Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems Rémi Bardou Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology [email protected] IGCB Project: Post-fire Regeneration Rose Brinkhoff Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Mountain Warming Khandaker Jafor Ahmed IGCB Research Fellow [email protected] More info Ben Lee IGCB Research Fellow [email protected] More info Cheyenne Lei Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Forest Ecosystems IGCB Project: Albedo Wenqi Luo IGCB Research Fellow [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Soil Fungal Biodiversity Deqiang Ma Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] IGCB Project: Human-Wildlife Interaction Kit McLean Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Institute for Global Change Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Infectious Disease Kirby Mills Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology [email protected] More info Sarah Raubenheimer IGCB Program Manager and Research Fellow [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Grassland Function Katie Rocci Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Climate and Soil Biogeochemistry Yiluan Song Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science [email protected] IGCB Project: Forest Phenology IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen Liting Zheng Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Global Change Biology [email protected] Exchange Fellows Antonio Aguiar IGCB Exchange Professor [email protected] Carolina Arguiano IGCB Graduate Exchange Fellow [email protected] Xinli Chen IGCB Postdoctoral Exchange Fellow; Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta Exchange fellow [email protected] IGCB Project: Forest Carbon Storage Thiago Gonçalves Souza IGCB Exchange Professor [email protected] Yuan Li IGCB Exchange Associate Professor, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology [email protected] More info Shijing Liang IGCB Graduate Exchange Fellow [email protected] More info Pengcheng Liu IGCB Graduate Exchange Fellow [email protected] Xujun Liu IGCB Exchange Fellow; South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] Vanessa Mariano IGCB Exchange Fellow [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Hurricanes and Forests Adriana Silva Olaya IGCB Exchange Professor [email protected] Adam Pellegrini IGCB Exchange Professor [email protected] More info Yiluan Song IGCB Doctoral Exchange Fellow [email protected] IGCB Project: Forest Phenology IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen Yihang Duan IGCB Exchange Fellow, Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [email protected] More info 2024 Graduate Fellows William Brinkerhoff IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management [email protected] More info Julia Eckberg IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Tomás Fuentes-Rohwer IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Nepsis García IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Jason Hagani IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Savannah Sturla Irizarry IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences [email protected] More info Cheyenne Graham IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Scott Jackson IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Frances Li IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Jacob Longmeyer IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Diana Marcela Medellin Zabala IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Quinn Moon IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Tim Muhich IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainabilty [email protected] More info Raquel Pizzardo IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Collin Richter IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Mariah Schlis-Elias IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Charlotte Sedlock IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Anna Yue Yu IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Jiali Zhu IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Tiantian Zhu IGCB Graduate Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info 2023 Graduate Fellows William Brinkerhoff IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management [email protected] More info Julia Eckberg IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Seasonal Rainfall Jennifer Flores IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info Etienne Herrick IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info Cecilia Howard Ph.D Candidate, Earth and Environmental Sciences [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Lake Chemistry Yi Liu IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen Jonathan Morris IGCB Graduate Fellow [email protected] More info Mislael A. Valentín Cortés IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Colonialism & Public Health Olivia Vought IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [email protected] More info IGCB Project:Snow Melt Shike Zhang IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability [email protected] More info IGCB Project: Wildfire and Carbon Cycling