Kueppers Lab Group

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 in the season, indicating that alpine plants are well adapted to flower under cool temperatures,…

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 scale map of forest structure in the East River Watershed in Colorado. Thanks to Tom…

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 and the new vegetation demographic model, FATES. Congratulations, Adam!

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. Also, a belated congratulations to Adam Hanbury-Brown for passing his qualifying exam! It covered tropical…