Dr, Caitlin Hicks Pries is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College who is broadly interested in how terrestrial ecosystems and soils are responding to global change. Caitlin did her undergraduate work in biology and environmental studies at Middlebury College and earned an M.S. in Soil and Water Science and a Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Florida. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate Sciences Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before moving to Dartmouth.
One of her current research foci is how species identity and mycorrhizal associations affect soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. Caitlin has been awarded early career awards from the Soil Science Society of America and the Biogeosciences Division of the European Geosciences Union.