🚨Two fully funded PhD opportunities in Australia!
Improving C4 photosynthesis in vegetation models.
Supervised by Dani Way (ANU, Canberra) and myself (UTS, Sydney).
1. Lab- and field-based project at ANU – see flyer below
2. Modelling project at UTS – www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Updates from our recent LEMONTREE Science Meeting: new results across the three major components of whole-plant respiration: leaves, stems, and fine roots, alongside emerging insights into biomass production efficiency.
research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/pl...
Apply Today to be a student at the UMich Biological Station! All majors welcome. Scholarships galore. 6 credits in 4 weeks
Spring and Summer Courses: myumi.ch/qZ12Q
Undergraduate Research Fellowships: myumi.ch/Z2E9q
Two PhD opportunities at the Australian National University and the University of Technology Sydney, working on thermal responses and thermal acclimation of C4 photosynthesis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Warming decouples above- and belowground interactions! news.umich.edu/long-term-wa...
roses are red
violets are blue
anthocyanin!
(betalain, too)
roses are red
violets are blue
both make sugars
from atmospheric CO2
🌹🌹🌹
🔥Out today in @nature.com Communications, Olivia Haas, Colin Prentice & Sandy Harrison explore how conflicting fire signals might evolve over the coming century & why focusing on burned area alone risks missing critical changes in wildfire behaviour. Blog Monday 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecologists! Plz share! **ESA abstracts due Feb 19th this year - meeting is last week in July in Salt Lake City** This is a change from our normal first week in August bc this is rescheduled from COVID cancelled 2020 meeting. We're hard at work to prepare a great meeting for you.
Following on from yesterday, here's our latest blog on the paper by @huiyingxu.bsky.social & Wang Han et al.,👇
research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/sa...
Go check it out!
New paper alert🔔My last PhD chapter is published📣
Our new study explains how the ratio of sapwood to leaf area🌿varies with hydraulic traits and climate on a global scale. Our theoretical model can capture almost 60% of trait variation.
Stay tuned! Blog is on the way
📢New paper published today in @newphyt.bsky.social
We develop an EEO framework to explain global variation in the sapwood-to-leaf area ratio, linking plant hydraulics, photosynthesis and climate.
Blog coming soon.🔗
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@huiyingxu.bsky.social
The sensitivities of the theoretical model to climate and hydraulic traits.
Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles
Xu et al. @huiyingxu.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QQQWKU...
Application Process Image Woman behind a podium presenting. Jessie Golding, BBCS postdoc, presenting at ICCB 2025. Apply to become a Lovejoy Fellow by submitting your resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references through the University of Arizona Talent Portal (link upcoming) by the first review date of January 30, 2026. Your cover letter should: Identify 1-2 Lovejoy BBCS faculty you would be interested in working with and explain the primary research directions you would want to pursue in collaboration with this faculty member. You are strongly encouraged to reach out to faculty before submitting your application. Describe your experience with or interest in inter- or transdisciplinary research. Explain how this experience will positively impact your career trajectory.
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
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Ever felt like your data is too big or complex to model easily?
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Feb. 4 at 3:00 PM ET!
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🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...
Last month we held an event called "Inside #COP30: Science, solutions, and the Texas Tech perspective"
If you are interested, the recording is up on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtn_...
The deadline for DOE's SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) summer 2026 program is in TWO DAYS: science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Ke... Are you an undergraduate interested in STEM? Apply!
End-of-year data update to the SRBD (global soil respiration database) github.com/bpbond/srdb
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
First AGU was successful!
#AMF #AGU25 #NewOrleans #PlantEcophys
Thanks to
@nickgregsmith.bsky.social
@texastechlib.bsky.social
@lemontree-uofr.bsky.social
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social
Friends, I am quite suddenly and with no warning teaching an upper level ecology class in three weeks. If anyone has any ecology lab materials they are willing to share with me, please reach out.
For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR
12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center
1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign.
More info:
Tomorrow is the final day for LEMONTREE at #AGU25. We are ending up our week with a poster from @snehanjanac.bsky.social on Friday morning in the poster hall! It's been a great week.
I wrote to my representatives @hirono.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social, and Ed Case to tell them to stop the dismantlement of NCAR. You can do the same with your representatives at this link.
📢Just out today: "The Global Hydrogen Budget" published in @nature.com . LEMONTREE contributions from Catherine Morfopoulos and David Sandoval www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.
NCAR is an amazing place full of wonderful, brilliant, hardworking people. I am forever indebted to what they've done for me and the world.
Heart-wrenching to hear the news, particularly during AGU :(
