Latest News
Welcome Ravi and Sun Yi! - August 15, 2024
We are excited to have recently welcomed Ravi, our new postdoc, and Sun Yi, our new grad student, to the lab.
Xinyi awarded the University Graduate Continuing Fellowship - February 21, 2024
https://gradschool.utexas.edu/funding/fellowships/grad-school/continuing
Damla awarded the Stengl-Wyer Graduate Fellowship - December 7, 2023
https://cns.utexas.edu/info-graduate-students-postdocs/find-funding/stengl-wyer-graduate-fellowships
Tropical to temperate forest dynamics and their potential influences on plant performance strategies, a theory-data fusion approach - June 1, 2023
NSF CAREER award . We are happy to announce a new five-year grant for research, education, and outreach. In this project, we will study the differences and similarities in forest dynamics across biomes. We will use our findings to determine the effects of the differences in forest dynamics on dominant plant strategies and their diversity across biomes. The research will include a back-and-forth between theoretical and empirical work. This work is in collaboration with several researchers in the ForestGeo network , where large forest dynamics plots are studied across the world. The educational and outreach goals of the project are to improve the inclusivity of theoretical ecology and the integration of theoretical and empirical research. Specifically, we will offer workshops and research experiences in theoretical ecology and forest dynamics modeling catering to all, regardless of mathematical background. Details of the project, including a postdoc position and two graduate student positions are available here .
New paper on temperate forest dynamics - May 1, 2023
Our paper on the likely important role of lower performance of the largest trees in temperate forest dynamics is out now in Forest Ecology and Management. This work on the Wind River forest dynamics plots was led by our own Emily Francis and done in collaboration with the fantastic Jim Lutz. We combined LiDAR data, traditional forest inventory data, and simple models to work through this hypothesis.
Caroline to go to iDiv for a sabbatical - May 9, 2023
Caroline has been selected as a Sabbatical Fellow at iDiv, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig, Germany. Caroline will be at iDiv from November 2023 to May 2024.
Caroline elected as an ESA Early Career Fellow - March 25, 2021
https://www.esa.org/blog/2021/03/25/ecological-society-of-america-announces-2021-fellows