Jacqueline Gerson is a biogeochemist interested in the impact of human activity on elemental cycling in the environment. Gerson is currently a postdoc in Whendee Silver’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her PhD from Duke University in Ecology. Gerson is in the Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry CZCN Cluster, focusing on patterns in oxygen and carbon dioxide across soil depths and how they relate to redox processes.