Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics

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.…

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…

Lots of us were in the field this summer – seeking new field sites, collecting data in existing ones, and taking samples that will be the subject of additional work over the coming months. Several highlights to follow… In addition,…

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…