# Sophie Everbach Graduate Student ![Sophie Everbach](/sites/g/files/omnuum6381/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/holbrook/files/sophie_everbach.jpg?itok=MCYankoB) location\_on Biological Laboratories 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-496-3580](tel:617-496-3580) email Trees are always on the hunt for light. The variety of growth forms seen in the forest is a testament to this photic need; individuals differentially find, occupy, and maintain branches in available light gaps despite the mechanical stressors of gravity and wind. A tree’s structural ability to respond to mechanical stress, while also balancing hydraulic efficiency, resistance to cavitation and carbohydrate storage, is therefore key to its resource acquisition success and survival. I study these mechanical-hydraulic-storage tradeoffs in tension wood, the stress-modified wood tissue that forms in response to gravity. - ## People Terms [Graduate Student](/people-terms/graduate-students)