A second shadehouse emerges! 🌱 We ran out of space in our first shadehouse so another one was built to house the remaining seedlings! #ForestWarming

This kind of field work is hardCORE! 🔨🌱 University of Hamburg graduate student Carol Miron led the TRACE field team to the Drought Experiment at El Verde Field Station to install minirhizotron tubes as part of her PhD work.

Fieldwork you feel in your Core! 💪 We recently took out soil cores from the TRACE plots for the Shadehouse experiment. They were taken from experimentally warmed and control plots. As you can see, soil coring is quite the workout! 🔨 #ForestWarming

This week we celebrated the many successes of the TRACE team with a community potluck! We celebrated: - successful end of field campaigns 🔨 - successful plant germinations 🌱 - Katherine’s birthday! 🎂 - graduate school acceptances 🧑‍🎓 We’re very proud of our team! 🥇

We take our fungicide spraying quite seriously at TRACE 🧤 After administering the inoculate into the shadehouse experiment’s seedlings, it was time to start applying the treatments.

Another successful week in the lab! Gabriela H. Villani and Parker Bartz did great during their thesis proposal seminars (and defense for Parker Bartz). Gabby presented her work on seed predation, density, and camouflage! The entire lab gathered at the Ballroom! Oklahoma State Univ.

I'm hiring a research asst/field tech to work with me on an NSF-funded project studying the physiology of invasive vines. Please share with anyone who may be interested (sorry, not able to sponsor visa) employment.vassar.edu/postings/3218

The Shadehouse duo is back! 😎 Graduate students Gabriela & Parker are back at the TRACE field site after finishing their semester at Oklahoma State Univ.. They'll be continuing their work with the shadehouse experiment as well as their thesis projects under Bene Bachelot. 👨‍🔬#ForestWarming

During this year's seedling census, the TRACE team measured 546 seedlings across all of our six plots!

#Botany2023 I'm recruiting grad students for my new lab University of Montana - if you're interested in plant demography, adaptation, and range shifts, please get in touch

Some TRACE members presented their current data / projects. We learned about new experiments from TRACE field technician Deyaneria Ortiz, grad student Malik Sankofa, postdoc Rob Tunison & grad student Parker Bartz. 💯 These presentations give insight into the future of TRACE. 🌴

The only thing that gets me more excited than the incredible tropical forest science at #TRACE is the spectacular TRACE team. What an amazing group of scientists at all career stages working to advance our understanding of these phenomenal ecosystems and their responses to change

2023 TRACE Annual Meeting 🌳🌻 Proud of our entire team! 😁 #ForestWarming

We are looking for a candidate for a PhD thesis in the Sustainable Field Crops Program at IRTA in Lleida for the project "Wheat Genetic Resources for Climate Change" Supervised by JM Soriano2 and Marta da Silva Sabino Lopes apply at borsatreball.irta.cat/enlace_oferta.…

This will involve collecting the last samples of the growing seedlings, with the final removal of the entire plant itself afterwards. Joel will specifically work on extracting the root exudate from the live roots of the 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 seedlings. 🌱🌿

Glad to have Joel back!

Did you ever find such green-brown ooze on #soil in your neighborhood? This is a colony of #cyanobacteria, genus #Nostoc! They fix Nitrogen and do photosynthesis. A rare case of wild #bacteria that you can see without a microscope. Once you know them you can find them :)

Please RT! El Verde Field Station #PuertoRico now has a direct funding mechanism to assist with repairs. It was hit hard by recent hurricanes & Covid. We're eager to bring it back so we can continue the decades long research into tropical ecology. 🇵🇷🌴🐸🦋 donaciones.uprrp.edu/iniciativas/pr…