Becky Ball

Becky Ball is a soil ecologist with expertise in soil biogeochemistry and biodiversity. She has worked in a variety of Antarctic ecosystems, both continental and maritime to study the impacts of environmental change (such as climate, invasive species, and human activity) on the microscopic soil biological community and their associated activities that regulate soil nutrient cycling. Her research also works to understand how the feedbacks between soils and plants progress development of terrestrial ecosystems under a changing environment.