Profile

• Time Zone

  Pacific

  
  
• Organization

  University of California - Santa Cruz

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I study how and why plants flower in response to climate change. Specifically, I study how their traits (deep roots, leaf color, succulence) cause them to respond or not respond to climate change. My study takes place in Santa Cruz County California in two habitats: grasslands, which are like meadows, and sandhills, which are inland areas with sandy soil.

  
  
• Profile Question 1

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

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

  I always wanted to save the environment. Humans are changing the environment so drastically, and I wanted to be a part of studying what's happening and developing solutions for environmental challenges. But I didn't know if I wanted to be on the advocacy/policy side of things, or if I wanted to be a scientist--until I discovered that love plants! Once I realized how fascinating plants were, I wanted to learn more about them. So I decided that I wanted to use plants to study environmental change, and I became a plant scientist.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  What lessons have you learned in your career about how science works?

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

  Your research never goes as planned, so you have to be able to adapt when something doesn't go as expected. But, this usually leads in new and interesting directions. If your results aren't as expected, that's interesting too--because now you get to figure out why!

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

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

  Favorite CA native plant: Calochortus albus
  Favorite flower: Hibiscus
  
  I love flowers and these two make me happy!

  
  
• Availability

  I am NOT available, please temporarily remove me from the available mentor list

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

  2

  
  

Recent Posts

Celery Bendy Bois Juliet Oshiro May 16, 2018

Hi Team!

These conclusions seem totally logical! I especially like the part where you tried to explain your "unexpected" result: that the sclerenchyma and collenchyma cells still had some parenchyma cells attached, which is…

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Hi Team!

These conclusions seem totally logical! I especially like the part where you tried to explain your "unexpected" result: that the sclerenchyma and collenchyma cells still had some parenchyma cells attached, which is why they bent. That's a great explanation. 

Looks like you're mostly wrapped up? You did a great job, thanks for sharing your experiment with me:) Do you have any more questions for me?

-Juliet

ehhsabospring2018 project 6 Juliet Oshiro May 9, 2018

Thanks for sharing those photos with me? What do you conclude?

Celery Bendy Bois Juliet Oshiro May 9, 2018

Thanks for the photos! what conclusions did you draw?