I prioritize mentorship in my research, both lab- and field-based. I have served as the primary research advisor to two recipients of an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer research grant (2017 and 2018), as well as to two undergraduate research assistants (spring 2019-fall 2019) from computer science and engineering respectively. These experiences have included between 5 and 10 weeks of fieldwork at Mpala Research Centre, and 10 weeks of intensive lab work at UC Santa Barbara.

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• In 2016, Edward Trout (undergraduate at UCSB) assisted myself and fellow doctoral student Georgia Titcomb at Mpala Research Centre. Edward worked as a research assistant on my projects in the KLEE for four weeks.

• In 2017, Dana Moore (undergraduate at Oregon State University, NSF-REU recipient) worked with me for 10 weeks on an independent research project investigating the carbon and nitrogen content of soils collected from each of the treatments I work in in the KLEE. We collaborated with Dr. Joshua Schimel's lab at UCSB for this work.

• In 2018, Grace Lewin (undergraduate at UC Davis, NSF-REU recipient) joined me at Mpala for 10 weeks during which we built and installed a broad network of autonomous soil carbon dioxide flux (e.g. soil carbon emissions) sensors across the treatments in the KLEE. We collaborated with Mark Hirsch (Media Arts and Technology; UCSB) and Dr. Kelly Caylor  (Earth Research Institute, Geography, Bren School; UCSB) for this work.

• In winter 2019, I and Dr. Kelly Caylor began work on the second version of our autonomous carbon flux sensors. Joining us in this work were undergraduate researchers extraordinaire Spencer Frey (UCSB Physics, our team engineer) and Vincent Benenati (UCSB Computer Science, our team programmer). Spencer accompanied me to Mpala for five weeks in summer 2019 to assist in the installation of and data collection from this newly-improved network of sensors.

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In addition to these incredible undergraduate researchers, I have been privileged to work with many skilled undergraduate volunteers. These students' efforts have facilitated countless lab procedures, and I remain eternally grateful for their time and expertise.