Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

These ‘let’s attract the hot-shot researchers’ calls ring very hollow to me. Climate science is a team sport. It takes a whole set of skills. We need to be thinking about how to keep critical -teams- integrated. Nabbing hero-model scientist types is not going to retain institutional expertise.

New paper out - reduced genetic diversity of trees in cities may inadvertently skew traits like phenological timing - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Relatable tween mood this morning:

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.

Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".

Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".

We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congrats to Samuel Jurado on his first first-authored paper! We found that larger rain events lead to lower soil moisture, creating dry land-atm feedbacks in the NE US by increasing the height of cloud formation.

Research @harvardforest.bsky.social thx to @ameriflux.bsky.social & NSF REU & LTER

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.

Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

please share: We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative team of ecologists in studying the integrated nature of forest functions that are critical for productivity, water and energy usage, and nutrient cycling.

Flux Course, Spanish language edition, June 22-July 5 2025 in Mexico! Apply by Jan 31 for instructor or Mar 28 as student at fluxnet.org/tafe/

The only photographic evidence of winter in our forested peatland is hoarfrost in the chipmunk holes @harvardforest.bsky.social

And still no snow in the forecast 😔

And minor but super exciting highlight was meeting Ember the NOAA Canine Ambassador

Had an amazing #AGU24 with lab presentations from Samuel Jurado giving a talk on dry land-atmosphere feedbacks and Naomi Hegwood’s poster on tree methane flux @harvardforest.bsky.social

Also loved celebrating @biometlab.bsky.social’s Ambassador Award and the Biomet Lab Family Reunion 🎉

And I’ll just note that this big sister was the one who showed Kevin that we could break apart the Devonian shale in our childhood backyard to find fossils 🥹

Article in Science hot off the press: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited for my “little” brother @kevinhatala.bsky.social & research team on the big release of results that were years in the making, showing different hominid species shared the same landscapes:

Scientists may win on total citations count, but philosophers definitely beat us on the “creative applications” front

Feeling so grateful for the ecosystems that I work in and the amazing people that I work with 💚

Yes, please! Glad to see this momentum!