Dr. Shannon Lynch’s career has been dedicated to effectively responding to emergent pests and pathogens as drivers of global change in forest ecosystems. She develops new analytical approaches that merge large-scale monitoring with tools from phylogenetic ecology and climate science to create predictive epidemiological models of the spread of novel pests and pathogens over heterogeneous landscapes. She complements this work by combining culture-dependent approaches with metagenomics to examine how tree microbiomes shape host resilience to destructive pathogens. Finally, she combines analytical and community-based approaches to understand the intersecting impacts of environmental injustice, urban forest pathogens, and climate change on disadvantaged communities in cities and urban forest systems.