Nanette Raczka

Nanette Raczka is a Research Fellow in the Asian School of the Environment at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is an ecologist who combines ecosystem level measurements with isotopic techniques to study plant nutrient acquisition processes and plant-microbial interactions. 

Nanette received a Ph.D. in Biology from West Virginia University in the United States. Her research has spanned the globe, seeking to quantify belowground forest function that drives carbon cycling and understanding forest resilience to future global change. Her experience in these areas has ranged from temperate forests in the Eastern United States, seasonally dry tropical forests in Costa Rica, mixed dipterocarp forests of Singapore, as well as the tropical peat swamp forests in Brunei Darussalam. 

For the last two years she has conducted research in the tropical peat swamp forests, seeking to understand how the hidden half, the belowground, allows for trees to grow in waterlogged peat and how these dynamics may change with human disturbance.