Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics
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…
Congratulations to lab alum, Meredith Jabis, on publication of her dissertation research in Ecology! She found that whole alpine community flowering advanced with experimental heating that melted the snow earlier in summer. This was in spite of cooler soil temperatures earlier…
Read More Alpine phenology advances with heating-driven snowmelt
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…
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…
