Resilience From The Ground Up

Resilience isn’t just something ecosystems do — bending, recovering, adapting in the face of stress. It’s something people do too. For UC Davis Ph.D. candidates Elisabeth Sellinger and Karolina Zabinski, resilience shows up in sediment cores and microbial communities, in carbon storage and stress responses, and also in career pivots, broken funding pipelines, and the uncertainty that shadows early-career science today.