Dr. Tracy Elsey-Quirk, Wetlands Ecologist

Dr. Elsey-Quirk is a wetland ecologist interested in vegetation dynamics in coastal wetlands including factors that influence organic matter accumulation and decomposition and carbon and nutrient cycling. She refers to wetlands as the "kidneys of the environment" and talks about their importance to anyone who values seafood. She is a research scientist in the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia..