Details for: Caroline Masiello

Carrie Masiello is a professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she is also jointly appointed in the departments of Biosciences and Chemistry. She is a biogeochemist and geobiologist whose team builds new tools to study carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Earth system. Her group’s research has involved the development of carbon oxidation state and ecosystem oxidative ratio as a new pair of Earth system tracers, and more recently the applications of synthetic biology to biogeochemical questions. A long-term research focus has been the biogeochemical effects of fire, including the fate of charcoal in the environment.