Mary Alldred is an associate professor of environmental science at the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh. She studies the influence of organisms and ecological communities on ecosystem function. Her research focuses on predicting the influence of wetland plants on denitrification, a microbial process that provides an important ecosystem service by removing excess nitrogen. Her work has also addressed the impacts of coastal management, including invasive-plant removal and coastal marsh restorations, on nitrogen cycling and ecosystem services.
Postdoc in Natural Sciences, 2015-2017
Baruch College CUNY
PhD in Ecology and Evolution, 2015
Stony Brook University
BS in Biology, 2008
University of Notre Dame
Collaborative project with the Town of Plattsburgh to develop eduational displays for the LaPierre Lane Riverway, a spur of the Saranac River Trail
Determining the influence of mutualistic species interactions on nitrogen cycling and marsh stability in restored urban marshes
Let’s face it, microbes can be hard to relate to. That’s why I created the Zoom a Microbe video series, where we dive below the surface and get to know them.
Collaborative project to understand short-term and long-term dynamics in the fire-dependent ecosystems of the Altona Flat Rock sandstone pavement pine barren
Investigating development of ecosystem services following urban marsh restoration using a chronosequence of restored marshes
A number of studies that use plant traits to predict the effects of plants on denitrification in wetland sediments