Eliza Clark joins the lab as NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Eliza Clark joined the Emery lab in the summer of 2025 with an NSF Postdoc Fellowship in Biology. She earned her PhD in Ecology in 2024 from Colorado State University focusing on the evolutionary ecology of an insect biological control agent. She has experience working in both agricultural and wild systems and is excited by range shifts, phenotypic plasticity, and phenology (the timing of life events). Eliza is excited to expand her knowledge and skills to alpine plants and landscapes and be part of the Emery lab.
Eliza’s postdoc research tackles questions of how fine-scale adaptations to microclimates influence large-scale range shifts. She will use the alpine annual Androsace septentrionalis, which, although it is widespread, is threatened by warming temperatures in the alpine. She will conduct field experiments, genomics, greenhouse studies, and distribution modeling to better understand how patterns of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity influences range shifts across latitude, which can inform both risk levels and management strategies for alpine plant species.
