Dr. Amaryllis Adey
POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK | Global Change Center
Postdoctoral Associate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sally Entrekin
Department of Entomology
aadey@vt.edu
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Dr. Amaryllis Adey is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Entomology working in Dr. Sally Entrekin’s Aquatic Entomology research lab.
Overall, Amaryllis’ research is centered around the conservation of freshwater ecosystems, with special interest in ecosystem and community ecology, food web ecology, and nutrient dynamics within wetland, lake, and river systems.
Before joining Virginia Tech, Amaryllis completed her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Biological Sciences where she studied freshwater coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes region and in southcentral Alaska.
Amaryllis’ postdoctoral work focuses on the impacts of freshwater salinization on biota, ecosystem processes, and riparian-stream linkages. Through collaborative groups, this research will quantify how salinization alters decomposition across a sodium gradient. Additionally, Amaryllis is collaborating with terrestrial and aquatic researchers across multiple institutions to crowdsource data for these analyses.
The GCC postdoctoral network connects our outstanding postdoctoral researchers to our broader GCC community, and provides them with a variety of professional development opportunities such as training in mentorship, grant writing, and science communication.
