Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics

After considerable delay, careful safety protocol development and a revision of our goals for the summer, we managed to get a team to the field to geo-locate and measure trees. This is part of our efforts to create a watershed…

Read More Field Work During Covid

PhD student Adam Hanbury-Brown’s proposal to the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program was selected for 3 years of funding. It will enable him to pursue research on post-fire vegetation dynamics using remote sensing…

Read More Adam Hanbury-Brown wins NASA Fellowship!

Lara and Adam Hanbury-Brown were co-authors on a new review article in Science that found that the world’s forests are becoming younger, likely eroding their ability to store carbon. Read the longer LBNL press release here.

Congratulations to Dianne Quiroz who completed her masters in ERG, examining whether conifers hosting bacterial endophyte communities in their foliage influence the relative abundance and phylogenetic structure of taxa in those communities. She is now polishing her results for publication.…

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This summer, second year PhD student Rachel Ward visited research partners at the tropical forest research station on Barro Colorado Island, where she spent her days collecting and processing material from litterfall traps on islands’ 50-hectare forest dynamics plot. The…

Read More Rachel Ward investigates tropical forests’ reproductive efforts on Barro Colorado Island, Panama