The Brookshire Lab Group

Current and Past Lab Members

Jack Brookshire
Jack Brookshire is an Associate Professor of biogeochemisty and ecosystem analysis with an emphasis on nutrient cycling and limitation. His interests include: ecosystem responses and feedbacks to atmosphere and climate variation; vegetation dynamics; watershed biogeochemistry; plant-soil interactions; natural abundance isotopes; ecosystem modeling; time series analysis; global change.
Professional Preparation
Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Postdoctoral Research Associate 2006-2009
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Sciences Ph.D. 2006
Oregon State University, Ecosystem Ecology, M.S. 2000; B.S. 1997
Appointments
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Biogeochemistry, Dept. of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 2015-Present
Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Biogeochemistry, Dept. of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 2009-2015
Professional Service
Associate editor for the journal Biogeochemistry

Ryan Malmquist
Ryan received a B.S. in Environmental Science at MSU and worked with us as a reasearch assistant before joining the lab as a graduate student. Ryan's work addresses how woody plant encroachment affects soil carbon storage and biogeochemical cycling and how fire history and frequency organizes grassland species composition and productivity
Bryce Currey
Ph.D. candidate
Bryce Currey arrived at MSU following his undergraduate studies in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Here, Bryce received his BS in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in environmental engineering and a minor in applied mathematics.
Currently, Bryce's work focuses on ecosystem and landscape-scale dynamics. He is interested in how tropical forest demographics and functional traits influence forest biogeochemical cycling across multiple scales. Bryce is also interested in how the vegetative ecotones of the Northern Great Plains are shifting with climate change from a primarily grass dominant ecosystem to a more forested ecosystem, and what it means for the biogeochemistry of the ecosystem.
Website: greencurrey.com


Justin Gay
Ph.D. candidate
Justin Gay comes to Montana State from Middlebury, Vermont where he was a former High School Environmental Science Teacher. During his teaching years he spent his summers working as researcher at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Broadly, his research is at the intersection of human caused global change and the implications for geographically broad patterns of biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial systems. His dissertation aims to elucidate how shifts in the dynamics between carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling influence ecosystem organization and function across grassland and forest systems.



Past Members
Justin Gay, PhD
Bryce Currey, PhD
Evan Bilbrey
Braden Leach
William Carter
Noah Davis
Aaron Klingborg, M.S.
Erik Norderud
Dominique David
Jordan Holsinger, M.S.
Wilder Greene
Ken Linder
Kelly Mildenberger
Scott Raznoff
Dr. Yuriko Yano