Nehir Toklu graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Integrative Biology and a secondary in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Her interests center on disturbance ecology, ecosystem functioning, and landscape-scale dynamics. She has worked as a curatorial assistant in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and conducted thesis research on elephant-driven disturbance in Congo Basin bais. For her master’s research at UC Santa Barbara, she looks forward to studying termite-driven methane emissions.