Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics
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…
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.…
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…
