Welcome Hannah Hoff!

Profile: Hannah Hoff and her work on Yellowstone plant-herbivore interactions

Hannah scouting field sites at Yellowstone, summer 2022

Since 2022, Hannah Hoff has been a core member of the Kartzinel Lab at Brown University. We were lucky to get to work with Hannah beginning in the summer before she entered our graduate program to focus on ecology and conservation in our partnership with Yellowstone National Park.

Hannah arrived in the lab to start her Ph.D. work as a plant community ecologist with interests in understanding how the activities of large mammals at Yellowstone influence the long-term composition of plant communities. Hannah has worked to connect field observations with manipulative experiments and DNA barcoding to understand the complex food web of this incredible system. Hannah will be working closely with the National Parks Service in the field. At Brown, she has been engaged with the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, as well as the Data Science Institute via her participation in an NIH T32 grant that focuses on scientific communication.