Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics
Belated but still enthusiastic congratulations to Váleri Vásquez for winning a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship! This two-year fellowship supports Váleri’s research on study genetic-based interventions, including CRISPR-Cas9 systems, to control mosquito-borne illness, and to optimize both the effectiveness and cost of…
Former PhD student Meredith Jabis just had another dissertation chapter published in Plant Ecology & Diversity – with the cover image! Her study examined whether and how neighboring alpine plants affect the physiology and survival of tree seedlings trying to establish above…
Read More Plant neighbors and tree colonization in the alpine
Several students and postdocs are giving posters and talks at the American Geophysical Union 2020 Fall Meeting – all virtual of course. Marshall Worsham is presenting a poster Dec 7 (An Enhanced Remote Sensing Method for Agent Attribution of Forest…
Postdoc Barbara Bomfim contributed to new research establishing a record of soil changes associated with both climate and human activity over the last 1,600 years based on radiocarbon dating in 83 sites across the transition zone between the Amazon and the Brazilian savanna. The…
Read More 1600 years of tree cover expansion in the southern Amazon forest
We are making a push to get data associated with publications from our Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment published and publicly accessible. Our first dataset, which includes data from Lazarus, Castanha et al. 2017 is now published in DOE’s ESS-DIVE archive and can be accessed here.…
We are looking for a new postdoc to explore the dynamics of California and western US ecosystems under a changing climate and fire regime using the FATES-SPITFIRE vegetation demographic model. The work involves collaboration with a larger team of scientists…
