Dr Carrie Andrew

I am a terrestrial ecologist who researches, particularly, the ecology of fungi. I question how fungi are influenced by, as well as how they are influential to, their natural environments. My research hinges upon understanding the ecological future of fungi, compared to their contemporary past. 

It is important to understand the contexts of fungi to their environments and their biotic relationships, because they are critical organisms for carbon and nutrient cycling. I have demonstrated the complexity to how fungi have, and will continue to, be impacted by global change. In demonstrating these trends, the further need to examine the consequences of change, in multi-scale approaches, remains open for investigation.

Qualifications

• PhD Forestry Science, Michigan Technological University, 2009
• BSc Botany; Biological Aspects of Conservation, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2004

Previous positions

• Researcher (fixed-term), Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisk Museum), University of Oslo, Norway, 2023–25
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology – Field Ecology, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Ohio, US, 2022–23
• Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University (MTU), College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, Michigan, US, 2021–22
• Researcher (fixed-term; remote), University of Oslo, Norway, 2021
• Researcher (fixed-term), SLU Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken), Swedish
  University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden, 2019–21
• Guest researcher, University of Oslo, Norway, 2017–20
• Researcher (fixed-term), University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Norway, 2018
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Fed. Research Inst. WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 2017–18
• Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2017–18
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Norway, 2013–16
• Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts Department, Illinois, US, 2013
• Research Associate, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, US, 2012–13
• Instructor, Northeastern Illinois University, Biology Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, 2010–13
• Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Dept. of Botany, Wisconsin, US, 2010
• Research Assistant, The Field Museum, Botany Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, 2009–11
• Research Associate, The Field Museum, Botany Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, 2009–13

Further affiliations

• IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Species Monitoring Specialist Group, 2021-current