Meet Prof. Kari Dunfield Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Kari Dunfield describes her research as a soil microbiologist and what it is like to be a graduate student advisor.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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 Prof. Kari Dunfield
School of Environmental Sciences
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology of Agro-ecosystems
Kari: I'm a soil microbiologist and what I'm really interested in is how
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different human impacts effect soil microbial communities and how that affects
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important ecosystem functions that we're interested in.
So things like nutrient cycling or greenhouse gas emissions or contaminant remediation.
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Kari: I think one of my favorite things about being a graduate student advisor is seeing how the students grow and change over time. 
And so it's great to see that when they first start in my lab group they come in and they, you know, they knock on my door
and they're asking lots of questions and asking about how to do methodology and what they should be doing in the lab.
And as the time goes on and they're, you know, finishing their PhDs, they basically come to my office to chat about
their lives and chat about the research and, you know, talk about different things that are important to them, so. 
It's really neat to see the transition from
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coming in as a, kind of a new student, and going out as a colleague.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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