Abbreviated CV
Education
August 2019-Present
Washington State University
Full CV PDF
PhD. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
Graduation 12/2024
Dissertation title: "BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AMONGST NON-LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI, AND FREE-LIVING NITROGEN FIXERS IN TRIPARTITE ASSOCIATIONS"
Defense date: November 19 2024
January 2017-July 2019
University of Alaska Fairbanks
MSc. in Biological Sciences
August 2010-December 2013
Humboldt State University
Bachelor's of Science in Botany
Focus in Mycology and Field Botany.
Research Appointments
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Research assistant Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 16 May 2021 - August 2024
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Research assistant Washington State University. 19 August 2019 – May 15 2020.
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Seasonal lichen specialist/ research assistant for PACEMAP Baffin Island expeditions. July-September 2018 and August 2023.
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Institute of Arctic Biology Summer Research Fellow. May-August 2017.
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Lead Field Botanist. May- December, 2013. Humboldt State University, Erin Alvey M.Sc. research crew via Dr. Erik Jules’ ecology lab.
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Field and lab Research Assistant. May 2012-December 2013. New world ectomycorrhizal tropical fungal species biodiversity and distribution expedition and laboratory assessment. Guiana shield, South America.
Honors and Fellows
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2019-2023 – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Washington State University Distinguished Graduate Research Fellowship. Four years of funding support towards the completion of PhD program.
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2017 - Institute of Arctic Biology Summer Research Fellowship. Summer research stipend and funding.
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2019 - University of Alaska Fairbanks Thesis Completion Fellowship.
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2019 - Outstanding Biology and Wildlife Teaching Assistant recipient. $500.00
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2018 - Nominee for Outstanding Biology and Wildlife Teaching Assistant.
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2017 - Institute of Arctic Biology Summer Research Fellowship.
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2016 - Michigan State University Herbarium Endowment travel scholarship.
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2011 - USFS Merit award.
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2010 - Presidential Scholar.
Publications
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Kasanke, Shawnee A. (2024) BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AMONGST NON-LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI, AND FREE-LIVING NITROGEN FIXERS IN TRIPARTITE ASSOCIATIONS. PhD Dissertation, Washington State University
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​Raynolds, M. K., Bültmann, H., Kasanke, S. A., Miller, G., & Raberg, J. H. (2025). Recurring cycles of ice and vegetation on Baffin Island, Nunavut. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 57(1), 2442776. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2442776
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Kasanke, Shawnee A., Tanya E. Cheeke, James J. Moran, Sarah S. Roley (2024). Tripartite interactions among associative free-living N-fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and host plants: A review of mutualistic benefits and community response to co-inoculation. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20679
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Shawnee A. Kasanke, Donald A. Walker, F. Stuart Chapin III & Daniel H. Mann (2023). Plant succession on glacial moraines in the Arctic Brooks Range along a >125,000-year glacial chronosequence/toposequence. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 55:1, DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2023.2178151​​
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Kasanke, S. A. (2019) Plant succession in the Arctic Brooks Range: floristic patterns from alpine to foothills, along a glacial chronosequence and elevation gradient. Master’s Thesis.
Research Grants
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June 2024 – Washington State University Robert John Anicetti Graduate Fellowship, $500
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June 2024 – Ecological Society of America Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry section student travel awards, $1000 total
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March 2024-NSF Arctic Workshop Early Career attendance support
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2019-2023 – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Washington State University Distinguished Graduate Research Fellowship. Four years of funding support towards the completion of PhD program
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2021&2022 – Washington State University Tri-Cities Student Travel Grant. $500
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2022 – Soil Science Society of America Robert Luxmoore Student Travel Grant. $1500
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2022 - Mycological Society of America Myron P. Backus Award. $1000
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2022 - Society for Ecological Restoration, Northwest Graduate Student Research Award. $2250.00
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2021 - Francis Rush Bradley Excellence Fund scholarship College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences and the School of the Environment Washington State University. $1000.00
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2021 - Stuntz Mycology Fund Grant.$5000.00
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2020 - Frances Premo Memorial Scholarship – College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences and the School of the Environment WSU. $1000.00
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2016 & 2017 - Ted McHenry Biology Field Research Fund. $3000.00
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2016 - Randy Howenstein Memorial Field Research Fund. $1000.00
Teaching
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Teaching assistant Washington State University – Introductory Organismal Biology (BIOL 106), Introductory Molecular Biology (BIOL 107), Principles of Chemistry and Chemistry related to Life Sciences (CHEM 106), 2021-2024
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Teaching assistant University of Alaska Fairbanks - Arctic Vegetation and Geobotany, Ecology, and Introductory Biology, 2017-2019
Selected Outreach
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November 2022: Moderator, Soil ecology in managed and natural systems symposium, Soil Science Society of America annual meeting, Baltimore MD.
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Fall 2021: Planting science, scientist mentor in high-school classrooms (virtual).
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Spring 2021: Skype a scientist, scientist participant in K-12 classrooms.
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Spring 2020: conservation committee, Columbia Basin Native Plant Society.
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Fall 2019: Early Career Expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC 2021, Chapter 18).
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Spring 2018: Participant at University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Careers of Science & Math Opportunity summit.
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Fall 2016-Spring 2019: Coordinator for the Interior Alaska Native Plant Society.
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Spring 2016, 2017 & 2019: Fairbanks Alaska K-12 circuit science fair judge.
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Summer 2016: Coordinator/instructor for University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North Herbarium citizen science fungal and lichen ID workshops.
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2012-2013: President and co-founder of the Humboldt State University Mycology club.
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2010-2012: Volunteer with Friends of the Dunes and the Humboldt State University Botany Club.
