Stephanie Schmiege

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Stephanie Schmiege is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University's Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology and at the New York Botanical Garden. Her research focuses broadly on understanding the physiological responses of conifers to global climate change in forests around the world. So far, her work has taken her from Arctic Boreal treeline, to high elevation Chilean forests, to the Central Highlands of Vietnam to study the world's conifers. Stephanie completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at Bowdoin College in Maine, and spent two years teaching Science at a rural Tanzanian elementary school before returning to the U.S. to pursue her interest in forest ecology and plant physiology.