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Zoe G. Cardon		Zoe Cardon, who was named a senior scientist, is a nationally-recognized terrestrial ecologist with expertise in plant physiological ecology and plant-rhizosphere interactions. She will collaborate with the MBL’s Bay Paul Center in the micro-eco interface, an initiative that will bridge research of the Ecosystems and Bay Paul Centers. According to Ecosystems Center director Hugh Ducklow, “Zoe’s interest in detecting and analyzing the activity of single cells in the plant root environment is exactly what we believe will enable her to be a key contributor to the MBL micro-eco bridge. In addition, her work on imaging bacterial activity in the natural environment will complement the research of other MBL scientists.” Zoe comes to the MBL from at the University of Connecticut where she was an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and associate director of the University’s Center for Integrative GeoSciences. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her undergraduate degrees in biology and Spanish from Utah State University.
Jianwu (Jim) Tang		Jim Tang is a soil ecologist, studying the impact of climate change on ecosystem processes and functions and the feedback of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. He has developed a novel carbon flux measurement system to simulate carbon and water exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere across various scales. Jim joins the Ecosystems Center as an assistant scientist. “Jim’s strong skills in using remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, and other recently developed techniques will contribute to the already strong research program investigating ecosystems processes and ecosystem-climate interactions at the Ecosystems Center,” noted Ducklow. Jim received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Beijing University in China. Prior to the MBL, he was the PotashCorp Fellow in Soil Science at the Chicago Botanic Garden and an adjunct associate professor of biological sciences at Northwestern University.

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