Nate Spicer

PhD Student

Nate Spicer earned his B.S. in Earth Science and Conservation Biology at the University of Toronto, where he researched plant uptake of gaseous mercury and the deposition of this mercury into soil through litterfall. Afterwards he became an intern and then a research technician at Archbold Biological Station’s Agroecology lab, studying the impact that conversion of cattle pasture to sugarcane for biofuel production would have on greenhouse gas emissions. He moved on to become a lab manager working with Dr. Lisa Chambers at the University of Central Florida, studying carbon sequestration in wetland soils.

Now with Dr. Kate Tully he is studying the impact of saltwater intrusion on nutrient cycling on the Delmarva Peninsula, as forest and farm ecosystems are converted to saltwater marsh.