Biogeochemistry, ecosystem services, ecological economics, urbanization and international development.
Wong, C.P., R. Ostertag, and S. Cordell. 2006. Ecological Society of America: Ecology in an Era of Globalization. Impacts of Invasive Plants on Light Availability in Hawaiian Lowland Wet Forests.
Wong, C.P, N.B. Grimm, and R. Sponseller. 2006. 91st Annual ESA Meeting. Desert crusts in an urban landscape: responses of N₂ fixation to anthropogenic N deposition.
Occidental College Honors in Biology, 2006
U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship, Mandarin, 2008
Ford
Foundation/National Academics Diversity Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship, 3 years
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 3 years
Student Conservation Association Board of Directors
Ecological Society of America SEEDS Advisory Board
Recently worked at the University of California-Berkeley and David & Lucile Packard Foundation assessing the potential of California agriculture to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.