Suzanne Pierre is

 a microbial ecologist and biogeochemist,

an environmental science educator,

​a writer asking simple questions with complex answers.

Studying ecosystems through a critical lens.

My research focuses on global environmental change. I am passionate about how climate, physiology, and plant-microbe interactions set the stage for elemental cycling on Earth. I use an interdisciplinary suite of tools from microbial ecology, stable isotope mass spectrometry,  and plant ecophysiology, and more, to address these questions. 

Research

Building environmental literacy through experience.

Curiosity and connection are the basis for understanding and action. As the environmental scientist/educator at the Exploratorium museum, I am dedicated to making high-quality science education accessible to classroom teachers and the public. 

Exploratorium

Connecting environmental processes and human inequality.

I am part of a conversation occuring across the disciplines of Black Feminism, critical environmental theory, liberatory transformation of human systems, and the natural sciences. I write and speak about the intersection of these issues, which boil down to the question: how do human-derived environmental conditions and concepts shape unequal societies, or potentiate justice. 

Writing