Sarah Collins

Sarah Collins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming, serving as Director of the UW Research Institute at AMK Ranch. Her research focuses on freshwater ecosystem ecology, particularly elemental cycling and food web dynamics in temperate and tropical ecosystems. She integrates local field studies with large-scale data synthesis to understand human-driven changes in aquatic systems.

Education: PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University (2015); BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Lewis & Clark College (2007). Postdoctoral training at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research interests include climate change impacts on aquatic ecosystems, nutrient limitation patterns, and the interplay between terrestrial and aquatic processes. Her work spans diverse ecosystems and leverages interdisciplinary collaborations with computer scientists, statisticians, and evolutionary biologists.

Key collaborations include the LAGOS-US LIMNO database project and crowdsourced investigations of global river organic matter composition. Her lab is based in the Science Initiative Building, and she maintains an active research group through her Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology Lab.