[1] Her research focuses primarily on bark beetle ecology and forest adaptation to climate change.
[2] Also growing up with a rough home life, Six initially dropped out of high school.
However, she decided to go back, as she graduated from Upland High School, before attending community college.
After earning her PhD, Six was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Ecology/Entomology at University of California Berkeley.
[2][5] Her current research focuses more on bark beetle ecology and management, how forests are responding and adapting to climate change, and looking at the resiliency of different trees through genetics.