Christine Palmer, PhD

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Dr. Palmer is a biologist with a passion for understanding how organisms survive in challenging and changing environments. She has been fortunate to work in some amazing ecosystems including the neotropics as a researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and as a field researcher in the high desert working on the impact of climate change on alpine plants, including the ancient bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. As a university professor with 10 years of experience teaching, Dr. Palmer moved to Iceland as a Fulbright/NSF Arctic Research Scholar, working with the Iceland Forest Service to study mycorrhizal fungal communities in subarctic regions to help in establishing new forests. She is passionate about the outdoors, with a particular soft spot for trees, and is often found somewhere on the side of a mountain on an off-trail running adventure. She studied abroad on an environmental conservation field program in college and found it to be one of the most transformative and empowering experience.

Education

• PhD, Biology, Dartmouth College
• MS, Cell and Molecular Biology
• BA, Biology, Williams College