Rachel Gallery
Professor @ University of Arizona - Director @ Thomas Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy
- Role
- Founding Director at Lovejoy Center
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rachel Gallery
Rachel E. Gallery is a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona and the Thomas E. Lovejoy Endowed Chair and Director of the Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy in the Arizona Institute for Resilience.With an emphasis on enhancing equity and inclusion in STEM, Gallery’s research focuses on the biodiversity, conservation, and ecology of soils and on sustaining ecosystem resilience in the face of wildfires, droughts, species invasions, and climate change. Specific research foci include (I) investigating the ecological factors that determine how species diversity can be maintained in terrestrial communities,(II) scaling from “molecules to watersheds” to understand the dryland biogeochemical cycling responses to woody plant encroachment and disentangling the bio- and geo-chemical controls on ecosystem recovery, soil formation, and landscape evolution in wildfire-prone landscapes,(IV) testing the hypothesis that climate warming causes changes to ecosystem carbon balance in tropical alpine wetlands through the co-responses of plants and soil microbiomes, and (V) investigating the consequences of plant invasions on plant-microbe interactions and outcomes for native plant restoration in coastal dunes.A Fulbright Scholar and a former fellow and current member of the American Association of University Women, Gallery serves on nonprofit advisory boards, international working groups, and proposal review panels, and regularly speaks at local outreach events and international conferences. Gallery earned a Ph.D. in Plant Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in Biology from American University. A former Research Fellow of Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford, she was also a Staff Scientist at the National Ecological Observatory Network before joining the University of Arizona faculty.
Experience
Founding Director
Mar 2024 — Present
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2002 — 2007
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