Asha

Kannan

Asha Kannan works with Jeff Dukes in Carnegie Science’s Department of Global Ecology, studying how vegetation shapes local microclimates at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. She graduated from Middlebury College, where she wrote an honors thesis on modeling how mosses, lichens, and cyanobacteria cycle carbon in drylands, and she is now pursuing an MPhil in physical geography at the University of Cambridge.