Emma Grover

Emma Grover is a second-year Master of Environmental Science candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. She is advised by Dr. Simon Queenborough. In a broad sense, her interests include tropical forest ecology, effective environmental science communication, biodiversity conservation, and nature based solutions to climate change. She seeks to investigate how tropical plant populations might respond to our changing climate, increasing our understanding of community resiliency in forest ecosystems. For her MESc thesis, she studies how leaf functional traits, with a focus on drip-tips (long leaf apices commonly found in wet tropical forests), vary based on tree developmental stage and life history strategy. Emma holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and a minor in Spanish from the University of Virginia.