Stephanie Roh
Environmental Science & Sustainability
Cornell University
I am interning as a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar from Cornell University. I will be working on a project with Nora Gavin-Smyth on the genetic rescue of Cirsium hillii, an endangered thistle native to the Illinois prairie. I'm from Hoboken, New Jersey and this will be my first time in Chicago! I love winter sports, traveling, and growing my plant collection.
Responses to climate change across species ranges: a reciprocal sowing experiment with two closely related legumes (2017)
Ecology
Genetic rescue is a potential conservation technique for rare plant species found in small fragmented populations. It involves transferring genetically diverse alleles to augment populations that are inbred and have low genetic diversity. In this video, I explain how my mentor Nora Gavin-Smyth and I investigated whether genetic rescue would be effective at increasing seed set for the rare species Hill's thistle (Cirsium hillii).