Dr. Serita Frey is a microbial ecologist with over 30 years of experience studying microbes in the environment. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Colorado State University and is currently a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches and advises in the Environmental Sciences Program. Her research examines how environmental change is altering forest ecosystems, with an emphasis on soil microbial communities and nutrient cycling processes. Her research team maintains five long-term global change experiments at the Harvard Forest Long-term Ecological Research site. Dr. Frey was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Ecological Society of America.