Diana Wall

Diana Wall and Ashley Shaw attended the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Summit in June 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. They presented research on their soil biodiversity work in the McMurdo Dry Valley of Antarctica.

Diana Wall is among the world’s top 1% of most highly cited scientists with outsized influence across several fields during the last decade, according to the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list by Web of Science. The Highly Cited Researchers list identifies scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers

The Antarctic Sun features Diana Wall’s and colleagues’ work during the 2017/2018 field season in “The Ice”: https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=4375 For more information on the Wall lab’s research in Antarctica click here: https://walllab.colostate.edu/research/antarctica/    

We congratulate Eden Senay for her acceptance at Yale University! As a sophomore in high school, Eden spent the 2016 Summer on a science internship with the Wall lab. During the internship, she developed an experiment that showed that the so-called root lesion nematode, P. penetrans, infects dominant grass species in the arid shortgrass and moist tallgrass prairies, and

The Wall lab is celebrating the graduation of three members of our team this Spring! Graduate student Ashley Shaw (now Dr. Shaw!) has successfully completed her Ph.D. in Ecology (click here for details on Ashley’s Ph.D. seminar). Also, two of our undergraduate research assistants received their degrees after working for 4 years in the Wall lab: Diana

Beginning this summer Wall lab member and GSBI Executive Director Elizabeth Bach will join the Nature Conservancy as Ecosystem Restoration Scientist at Nachusa Grasslands in Franklin Grove, Illinois. During the past 2 years, Elizabeth not only had a substantial impact on the GSBI, but also contributed substantially to Wall lab’s research. Her vast knowledge of US grassland

On May 8, Ashley Shaw presented her PhD thesis on “Trophic relationships in soil communities: How abiotic stress affects biotic interactions in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica”. Ashley has been in the Wall lab since 2011, first as a MSc student, then as a PhD student and graduate research assistant. The research she presented casts

Many congratulations to our undergraduate research assistant Abby Jackson for the successful presentation of her Honors Thesis to her committee and the public on April 25th. Her research “Water availability effects on the vertical distribution of nematode trophic groups in soil” showed how changes in growing-season precipitation will affect the distribution of nematode populations through the soil profile