Seeta Sistla received her Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara and completed her undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College.
Sistla is an ecosystem ecologist who studies how soils, plants, and microbial communities respond to environmental change, and how these changes can feedback to affect larger-scale ecosystem processes and coupled human-natural systems. She is also interested in improving how scientific knowledge is used in decision-making and conservation efforts.
Previously, Sistla was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow based at the University of California Irvine.