Bio
Bailey Murphy joined the Plant-Soil Interactions group within the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate at ORNL as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in October 2023. Bailey received her Master's in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and her PhD in 2023. Her Master's thesis centered around reducing uncertainty in model predictions of carbon dynamics using a Bayesian approach integrating statistical emulation, and her dissertation research utilized dynamic vegetation models to explore the impacts of management and climate change on forest structure and function across multi-decadal timescales. Currently, Bailey uses land surface and biogeochemical modeling to investigate how interactions between vegetation and below-ground processes drive carbon cycling in Arctic ecosystems, contributing to the Department of Energy's Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project. Bailey routinely works with a variety of large datasets to validate and parameterize models as well as explore environmental interactions, including observational data from eddy covariance flux towers and remote sensing. In addition to research, Bailey was recently appointed to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences editorial board as an Early Career Fellow, and is involved in the FLUXNET Early Career Scientist Network.