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Maria Park spends her days studying tree communities. The PhD student in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences (CBS), is a keen observer of nature who turns those observations into insights about how trees influence one another. Her love of nature and looking closely at the world around her started early and fed a lifelong interest in both science and art. Park, who is a trained artist and serves as a teaching assistant for the University’s Art and Ecology course in addition to her work in the CBS Cavender-Bares lab, investigates how tree community composition influences the growth and stress of trees.