As a professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, she holds the Paul S. and Billie Achilles Chair of Environmental Science and is the Head of the Faculty Senate.
[4] Growing up in a military family that moved frequently, Hadly found consistency within nature.
[1] Her work in the park service funded her master's degree in quaternary science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff that she received in 1990.
In September 2016, Hadly became faculty director for the Stanford Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve,[2] where she has worked on defining the Anthropocene,[8] the Insect Apocalypse, food webs from feces, soil, and cameras, and reverse spillover - how animals are impacted by human-shed microbes.
She works to promote diversity through unique locations of study, assisting students from less privileged backgrounds, and interdisciplinary science.