If you fancy, come and check my talk tomorrow in room 520D at 12.15pm where I will talk about how I plan to find out when/where/why/how different mutualisms break down across the plant tree of life! Looking forward to any feedback!! #Evol2024

Fun kick off meeting for a new project led by ⁦Anna Abrahão⁩ and her team on dark septate fungi in the Caatinga. Can’t wait to return!!

Excited to join #ngeearctic all hands meeting for next few days here in Anchorage! Can’t wait to see those landscapes up close and personal too. Farthest north I’ve ever been. ⁦Dr. Colleen Iversen (She/Her)⁩

**PhD positions available in plant-microbe interactions & global change** Jenny Bhatnagar (she/her) and myself are seeking PhD students (starting Jan or May 2025) to work on a DOE-funded project on the roles of mycorrhizal fungal traits in vegetation responses to global change

I’m SO excited to introduce THE AMAZING Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (she/her)👩🏽‍🔬🌍) at the #ESA2024 New Phytologist Keynote talk 10:30-11:30am PT tomorrow in the Terrace Theater. Asmeret is a science rockstar, impactful leader, and fights for equity and inclusion in research. Don’t miss it!@ESA_org

Tropical forests are changing and we are failing to explain why. Are there alternative hypotheses that we aren't considering? Come to my 10:15am talk tomorrow at #ESA2024 to learn about the case for storms as a major driver of tropical forest change Ecological Society

Interested in Deadwood, Carbon Cycling, Management and Climate Change? Check out our review in Annual Reviews! Team: Amy Zanne Mark Ooi Will Cornwell Paul Eggleton Jeff Powell Amy Austin Steven Allison Hans Cornelissen Shawn Fraver Christopher Woodall go.shr.lc/3WZLhcc

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Smithsonian PhD & postdoc fellowships - applications due Oct. 15. This includes the opportunity to work with ForestGEO researchers, myself included. fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/sm…

JOB OPPORTUNITIES for BOTANISTS: Two *permanent* research positions at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian NMNH). Smithsonian staff scientist positions are highly desirable! Collaboration with ForestGEO would be welcome. Please apply to join us!

The Spasojevic and Ostevik labs at UC-Riverside are jointly recruiting one graduate student to pursue a Ph.D. in the evolutionary ecology of alpine plants. (1/n)

Applications are open for the 2025 Fundamentals of Ecosystem Ecology (FEE) course at the Cary Institute. This crash course in ecosystem ecology runs from Jan. 6-17th. We begin reviewing applications on Oct. 15th. Apply here: caryinstitute.org/eco-inquiry/un…

I'm hiring a post-doc to work on a new NSF-funded project. This is funded up to two-years and is in collaboration with Andrew Dickerson at UTK. Start date is very negotiable. Job description here: tinyurl.com/2whyry36. Contact me if you're interested. Please RT!!!

Want to glimpse into the life of a field station? Here is a photo gallery - a snapshot --of an incredible season UM Biological Station lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-even…