Whendee Silver

Whendee Silver is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist.
Early life and education.
Silver grew up in Southern California. She earned her MS in Forest Science from Yale School of Forestry in 1987 and in 1992, received her PhD from Yale University.
Career and research.
Silver is a professor of ecosystem ecology at University of California, Berkeley. With a focus on ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, her research is often aimed at better understanding the soil system to mitigate the effects of climate change. A significant portion of her work has focused on tropical ecosystems, their soils, plants, and how nutrients and carbon cycle through them. 
Silver is the lead scientist at the Marin Carbon Project, which she helped found in 2008. The Marin Carbon Project uses science to improve land management, to think about the whole system and thus consider and value ecosystem services such as soil's C sequestration ability, and make farm and ranch management more centered around n carbon sequestration. Through this project she is working with ranchers, using compost for carbon sequestration on ranch land in California, greatly improving the soil's ability to sequester carbon. 
Publications.
Silver's research on the biogeochemistry of tropical plants has been published in multiple academic journals. Silver's research was featured in the book "Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants" by Ulrich Lüttge. Silver has over 145 publications as of 2018.