I am a National Science Foundation and University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. I am broadly interested in studying how both rural and urban farmers can cultivate healthy and biodiverse soils for sustainable crop production in the face of rapid environmental change. In July 2025, I will be joining the Life and Environmental Sciences Department at UC Merced as an Assistant Professor in Soil Microbial Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture.

Download my CV (updated September 2023)

Contact: joagarcia@ucdavis.edu