Daniela Cusack

Dr. Daniela Cusack is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability at Colorado State University, and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Her research program examines effects of global change on ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry across spatial scales, with a focus on belowground soil-root-microbial interactions and dynamics. Her current research projects explore how tropical forests, temperate grasslands, and alpine ecosystems respond to drying, warming, nitrogen deposition, land use change, and invasive plant species. See one of the projects she leads in Panama here: https://www.facebook.com/PARCHEDpanama/. She received her PhD from UC-Berkeley (2009), MS from Yale University (2003), and BA from Wesleyan University (1999).