Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!

New paper from @parched-panama.bsky.social on climate history effects on microbial responses to stress! Differences in similar microbes from Panama vs. Colorado. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
N Bouskill, S Chacon @daniela-cusack.bsky.social L Dietterich, L Chen, A Khurram, J Voriskova, H Holman

Hooray to recent @parched-panama.bsky.social grad student Amanda Cordeiro on getting out this huge new synthesis on tropical roots, with a focus on responses to drought!

Brunch party to wrap a great @parched-panama.bsky.social research semester with my team at CSU! Processed 192 Panama root biomass samples and another 200+ soil samples!

With @daniela-cusack.bsky.social and field specialist Eric Valdes at the drying plots!

Congrats to CSU MS student Grace McLaughlin for receiving a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellowship for her research on @parched-panama.bsky.social rainforest drying effects on soil microbes!

Bravo to our stellar undergad @parched-panama.bsky.social root researchers at Colorado State University ES&S! Maya McCain, Ally Lewis, and Hailey Tharpe have been crushing it all semester!

Submit an abstract about your tropical research and come present in Oaxaca! The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) abstract deadline is Friday!
www.atbc2025.org/call-abstracts

Go @parched-panama.bsky.social dry season 2025 field team! Olivia Aaron, Eric Valdes, Grace McLaughlin and Katie Nelson collecting soils, roots, and trace gases!

Today is the deadline for #ESA2025 contributed abstracts! I could definitely use some good time with a giant group of ecologists right about now. If you can, please come meet me in Baltimore and let's chat forests, soils, global change, or anything else ecology-related!
esa.org/baltimore202...

Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!

Great leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Well this is bad. I guess I'll still submit my NSF proposal this week?

Thrilled to see this 2-volume book published on "100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Sci." - A monument to tropical forests, led by H Muller-Landau & SJ Wright!
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social @parched-panama.bsky.social

smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...

Go Alex! a beloved part of the @parched-panama.bsky.social team!

@parched-panama.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Happy to be here - check out our work on drying effects on tropical forests in Panama with @daniela7cusack.bsky.social @karis-mcfarlane.bsky.social @bsulman.bsky.social and many others!