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
A variety of undergraduate-led research projects from the lab. Recent projects include a solar-power internship, quantifying ecosystem services in restored wetlands, leveraging data to answer management challenges, and science outreach and communication.
Developing place-based inquiry lessons for K12 education around the problem of managing road-salt contamination
Investigating development of ecosystem services following urban marsh restoration in New York City
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 positive species interactions between marsh grasses and ribbed mussels 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
A number of studies that use plant traits to predict the effects of plants on denitrification in wetland sediments