Honors and awards.

2018

Inaugural cohort, New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
"The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are launching the 'New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine' initiative to identify outstanding early-career science, engineering, and medicine (SEM) leaders. They will engage in communicating the evidence base for addressing national and global challenges to provide new perspectives on issues of importance to the community represented by the National Academies, and to help identify ways to expand the diversity of expertise that is brought to all of the Academies' convening and advisory activities."

2017 - 2021

Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
'Elected for her leadership and creativity in linking experimentation and modeling to advance ecological understanding of the influence of fine plant roots on the fate of vast pools of carbon and nutrients held in the soils of diverse biomes.'

​2012

Stanley I. Auerbach Early-Career Award for
​Excellence in Environmental Sciences.
​Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

2010

Finalist in New Phytologist Tansley Medal competition for mini-review: Digging deeper: Fine-root responses to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration in forested ecosystems'. Highlighted in ‘The New Phytologist Tansley medal’.

2009

Distinguished Achievement Award for Post-Graduate Research. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.