Laura Meredith

Dr. Laura Meredith is an associate professor at the University of Arizona where she leads a research team focused on microbial trace gas metabolism, methods for sensing trace gases in soil, and scaling microbial processes driving biosphere-atmosphere exchange. Dr. Meredith received her PhD in 2013 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where her dissertation centered on the overwhelming soil microbial sink for H2. As a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University she investigated the genomic underpinnings of microbial uptake of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (OCS)—a promising carbon cycle tracer. Dr. Meredith joined the faculty of the University of Arizona in 2017 and has since built a research program supported by grants including the prestigious NSF CAREER award. As the Tropical Rainforest Science Director at Biosphere 2, she recently co-led the Water, Atmosphere, and Life Dynamics (WALD) campaign, a controlled ecosystem drought and rewet experiment focusing on VOC cycling.