{"id":459,"date":"2020-04-28T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=459"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:01:58","slug":"interview-with-evergreen-undergrad-iris-garthwaite-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/interview-with-evergreen-undergrad-iris-garthwaite-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Evergreen undergrad, Iris Garthwaite \u201820"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Iris helping to tag Sitka willows as male or female (pink!) along Clear Creek at Mount St. Helens in summer 2019. Photo by Carri\u00a0LeRoy\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unconventional, but I view ecological studies as a radical form of generous listening to the world around us. My current listening project (research) investigates the temporal dynamics of multitrophic interactions in aquatic-terrestrial ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am currently studying interactions between Salix<\/em> sitchensis<\/em> phenology, phytochemistry and stream biota at MSH. Advancing our understanding in this research area allows for better predictions of climate -driven ecological mismatch in land-water ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iris helped coordinate science outreach for the Mount St. Helens Institute\u2019s\u00a0GeoGirls\u00a0program in the summer of 2019. Here she is leading a pack of 25 middle school girls. Photo by Carri\u00a0LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResearch at MSH with Dr. LeRoy has allowed me to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Participate in NSF- funded research<\/li>
  • Conduct independent stream ecology research<\/li>
  • Co-author a peer-reviewed publication<\/li>
  • Form strong relationships with peers and mentors<\/li>
  • And so much more!\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cI am passionate about supporting other #WomenInSTEM and connecting youth with nature. I have such a supportive group in the L3 lab and I want to give others that same feeling of comfort with science and the natural world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Iris and fellow undergraduate Victoria Cowan enjoying some shade on the blistering Pumice Plain of Mount St. Helens in the summer of 2019. Photo by Carri LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cI am so excited to have two manuscripts in progress as an undergraduate. The sky is the limit for research opportunities at Evergreen. I am looking forward to publishing our research and sharing our work with the broader freshwater ecology community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cResearch is an art form of listening, sometimes it is with a hyporheic well, an extraction, a pH meter, a mass spectra or simply sitting by the stream. Evergreen is my academic home, it understands my way of listening and my desire not to push my way into an answer but to find patterns and relationships in a landscape of uncertainty and null hypotheses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Iris and fellow field assistants taking a much needed rest in the shade of willows and alders at Mount St Helens, summer 2019. Photo by Carri LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cInstead of starting with the question- what do I want to discover? I like to enter a new study system with \u201cwhat wants to be discovered?\u201d I come from a background in permaculture, where we are taught to watch the land for quite some time before jumping in and making changes. Where does the shade hit in November? What family of plants sprout in February? Where does rain collect in December?  That\u2019s the kind of science I like to do- meaningful, thoughtful and full of listening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cIt\u2019s unconventional, but I view ecological studies as a radical form of generous listening to the world around us. My current listening project (research) investigates the temporal dynamics of multitrophic interactions in aquatic-terrestrial ecosystems.\u201d \u201cI am currently studying interactions between Salix sitchensis phenology, phytochemistry and stream biota at MSH. Advancing our understanding in this research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,5,9],"tags":[47,39,38,40,31,49,12,29,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}