Through my research I strive to understand, illustrate, and develop connections between disparate “wild” and “anthropogenic” ecologies. My current research at Yale CEA focuses on designing, prototyping, implementing and testing plant-based microbial ecosystem bioremediation strategies for improving air and microbiome quality and human exposure within indoor environments. This research aims to explore the potential for plant-based ecologies to improve human exposure and ultimately benefit human health outcomes and urban sustainability. This process includes parametric design and rapid prototyping, high throughput metagenomic approaches to quantify microbiome diversity and metabolic potential, as well as GC-Mass Spec analysis to measure changes in indoor airstream chemistry connected to rhizosphere community metabolisms. Within this context, my career objectives are to apply human-mediated ecological cycling practices to urban contexts in a sustainable way: Utilizing directed environmental pressure and interdisciplinary efforts to facilitate long-term environmental conservation and sustainability initiatives for greener built ecologies and improved human health.