Dr. Chelsea Carey is a Senior Soil Ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science, a California-based non-profit focused on climate-smart conservation. Chelsea received her Ph.D. from UC Merced in 2014 under the supervision of Dr. Stephen C. Hart. Her dissertation focused on determining the impact of multiple global and regional change factors on soil nitrogen cycling and microbial community structure of California grasslands. Chelsea went on to spend time as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Riverside where she studied, among other things, atmospheric movement and dispersal of microorganisms. In her role at Point Blue, Chelsea works to better understand the ecology of California’s rangeland soils and to generate basic and applied knowledge that will allow for sustainable stewardship of these landscapes across the state.