Finzi student wins dissertation fellowship
The American Association of University Women awarded 244 fellowships and grants for the 2014–15 award year. Awardees are committed to AAUW’s legacy of scholarship, research, and action. During the award year, the recipients will pursue graduate studies and community projects to empower women and girls in the United States and around the world.
Graduate student Rose Abramoff of the Adrien Finzi lab studies belowground carbon allocation in temperate forests. Her research is conducted at Harvard Forest and uses field measurements to empirically determine what plants do with newly fixed carbon and how this changes seasonally. Belowground carbon accumulation is a significant contributor to the overall carbon storage of a forest and is an important term in global carbon budgets and predictive climate models. Her focus is specifically in root phenology and the biotic and abiotic drivers of root production, turnover, respiration, carbohydrate accumulation, exudation and microbial exoenzyme activity