Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics

Sophia Bagshaw, who is graduating with honors in Environmental Sciences from the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley this month gave a terrific presentation on her honors research, “Coast Redwoods and Climate Change: Age-based Differences in Hydraulic Traits.” She…

Kudos to Nancy Freitas, who works with Margaret Torn and others in Alaska to uncover the response of arctic lake sediments to warming. She is a finalist in UC Berkeley’s Grad Slam and is competing today to move on to the UC-wide…

Want to work with a top-notch team of scientists to understand how diverse tropical forests will be affected by climate change? Are you a whiz with complex biogeochemical or ecological datasets? Interested in improving how ecology is represented in Earth system…

Congratulations to Meredith Jabis for filing her dissertation! This hard won accomplishment is just the start. She has a paper in review and two more in development, with ambitions to expand her analyses of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in…

Postdoc Tom Powell just published a terrific new paper in New Phytologist! He used the ED2 vegetation demographic model to show how hydroclimate variability contributes to tropical forest functional diversity, which in turn makes forest biomass resilient to many drought…

A new paper from our climate change experiment is just out! It shows that establishing limber pine seedlings host a different microbiome in their shoot and root tissues than that found in mature trees. It also shows an increased abundance of bacterial…