Leda Kobziar didn’t expect her ecological studies to launch into the troposphere. The #uidaho fires science professor hadn’t considered that publishing a paper on the spread of microbes in wildfire smoke would be a game changer in fire science circles.
Over the past couple of years however, Kobziar’s name has become synonymous with a new field of ecological research called pyroaerobiology. It is a name she coined to describe the study of living microorganisms found in plumes of forest fire smoke.
What does that mean for undergraduate and graduate research opportunities?
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