Day is a plant ecologist who studies factors that control plant performance, plant litter decomposition and carbon cycling.

Garcia-Pichel is the Director of the Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics. He studies the roles, adaptations and impacts of microbes in natural environments, from desert soils to shallow marine waters.

Neuer is a biological oceanographer and plankton ecologist and studies the oceanic carbon cycle, particularly the role of plankton organisms in uptake and sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.

Dr. Hall is a conservation scientist and President's Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and award-winning teacher. Her research team studies ecosystem resilience and complex interactions between people and nature.

Gordon applies isotope analysis to study the history of early Earth paleoredox, and human isotope variations, including cancer, metabolism, bone loss, and geographic residence history for forensic purposes.

Heather Throop is an ecosystem scientist who studies how global-scale changes influence dryland ecosystems.

Jessica Rothwell is an Assistant NAGPRA Coordinator and Bioarchaeologist at the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Trembath-Reichert is a geobiologist studying microbial life in the most extreme regions of our planet to understand its limits, origins, and extensibility beyond Earth.