Profile

• Time Zone

  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  University of Georgia - Athens

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  Physiology, stress response, photosynthesis, ferns, fern lifecycle

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  My favorite plant is called Christmas fern, it’s scientific name is Polystichum acrostichoides. It is my favorite because it grows throughout the winter even in places where it snows. Even more interesting is that it becomes flat against the ground in the winter. My first major research project was observing this behavior and figuring out why the fern does this.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  When and why did you decide to go into a science career?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  Deciding to go into science has been an ongoing process since late middle school. I grew up on a farm and developed an interest in understanding how plants and animals worked. I was fortunate to have a great biology teacher in high school who lead me to love plants. Without this teacher and other mentors, I would not have realized I could make a career out of plants and doing my own research. I like working in science because I get to investigate how things work and help myself and others understand the plants around us.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What is tough about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  The most difficult part of being science for me is picking one project to work on. There are so many interesting possibilities and questions but I only have enough time and money to do so many things. Deciding what to pursue first has been a big challenge for me in graduate school, but it is also nice to realize how many things haven’t been figured out yet.

  
  
• Help represent the outreach efforts of your societies. Please click all those organizations you are a member of:

  (not set)

  
  
• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

  2

  
  

Recent Posts

Team 6c 4 Sarah Emily Forget Apr 10, 2020

Sounds like you all are starting to think about factors that can limit the germination and growth of plants such as oxygen, light, and competition. It seems like Etta is going to put seeds in different light environments and Asher and Tulla mention…

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Sounds like you all are starting to think about factors that can limit the germination and growth of plants such as oxygen, light, and competition. It seems like Etta is going to put seeds in different light environments and Asher and Tulla mention light as well. Perhaps we could incorporate this into your experiment and scientific question. Would you all be interested in studying how different amounts of light affect you plants? Let me know what you think or if you have other ideas.

Team 6c 4 Sarah Emily Forget Mar 30, 2020

I am glad to see everyone is trying to germinate some sort of plant, hopefully they do germinate. Etta brought up that you were thinking of variables you could alter with your teacher. What did everyone else think of as variables? It would be good…

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I am glad to see everyone is trying to germinate some sort of plant, hopefully they do germinate. Etta brought up that you were thinking of variables you could alter with your teacher. What did everyone else think of as variables? It would be good to talk about this so we can come up with a group name, research question, and experimental design.

Team 6c 4 Sarah Emily Forget Mar 24, 2020

Hi Etta, 

It's great to hear you will be all be able to continue this at home and that you have been able to start germinating the seeds you were given. We should work on developing a scientific question for your group experiment. What…

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Hi Etta, 

It's great to hear you will be all be able to continue this at home and that you have been able to start germinating the seeds you were given. We should work on developing a scientific question for your group experiment. What do you find interesting about plants so far? Are there any factors (such as light, nutrients, etc.) that you think you would like to explore in the experiment?