Bonnie McGill

Bonnie (she/her) joined AFT in 2022 and is a member of the AFT Research Team. She collaborates with colleagues across AFT and beyond to research solutions to carbon, nitrogen, and water cycling challenges in agricultural systems that support farmers, communities, and future generations. She brings expertise in biogeochemistry, agroecology, science communication, knowledge co-production, and social science. She works to translate relevant research into useful and useable resources for farmers, land managers, and policy makers. She is particularly skilled at modeling and visualizing large datasets as well as facilitating interdisciplinary groups of public and private stakeholders. Bonnie has an extensive agricultural background including working with farmers and farmlands in Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. Before joining AFT, Bonnie was a science communication fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow. She earned her PhD in ecosystem ecology from Michigan State University where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and USAID Borlaug Fellow. She is a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and American Geophysical Union. Bonnie has been involved in ecological research since 2005. She is an Appalachian and a dog lover and lives in the area now known as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.