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@rcoconnor.bsky.social

Rangeland ecophysiologist who delves into the depths of carbon and water! I am also a girl dad that wanders the wilds with them. All post are mine and don’t represent my employer.

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How about Big Trouble in Little China? Watched it a ton growing up.

07.08.2025 05:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This looks great, I’ll add it to my library!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I enjoy reading your papers arid ecology and management!!!

05.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That is a fun book, kudos on citing Sir Pratchett. I love the Sam Vimes stories about as much as the witch stories.

30.07.2025 01:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which book was the Terry Pratchett citation from?

Also great job on your writing session!

30.07.2025 01:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It you got to be able to feel it in the water.

03.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Call for Papers: Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow: @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social Special Collection on Emerging Scientists" - spotlighting research from emerging biogeoscientists acknowledged by their peers as future leaders in their field. Nominations are open!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

07.01.2025 19:47 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

It was a fun time and got to meet some awesome technicians.

21.06.2025 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Become a Fellow — Smith Fellows

Applications are NOW OPEN for Smith Fellows conservation research Fellowships beginning in 2026! View the Proposal Guidelines and apply here: www.smithfellows.org/join-us

20.06.2025 21:08 — 👍 15    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 4
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Starting to measure #CrustNet plots, and learning some of our biocrust species! Thanks @sierrajech.bsky.social for coming out to NGBER! @matthewbowker1.bsky.social @ecology-awesome.bsky.social

17.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Suerte in monitoring and hope there are no fires while you’re there.

12.06.2025 01:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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11.06.2025 04:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What about the availability of coffee pot ramen? That’s the other important part of conferences besides a cookie and brownie report.

11.06.2025 00:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Teaching my kids about my summer breaks, NES and Super Mario. Still working since 1989!

09.06.2025 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s the smell of a successful field campaign!

03.06.2025 04:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a problem like that when the batteries were dead or low voltage. There was nothing we were able to do.

28.05.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t forget microbes munching on plant stuff and dying

01.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oops didn’t realize I tagged the wrong Red Cross group the real group that helped gather my life fluid was the Red Cross in Oregon.

01.05.2025 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Giving blood and saving lives! Thanks @redcrossny.bsky.social !

01.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Cleansing photo for today!

29.04.2025 17:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Training the rising generation about soil pits and how much fun they can be!

28.04.2025 22:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Grassland scene near Boulder, CO

Grassland scene near Boulder, CO

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

18.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 44    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 2

1996 or earlier.

01.04.2025 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That or bring a diesel Toyota Hilux

01.04.2025 03:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

13.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 175    🔁 116    💬 3    📌 6

I’ve tried telling people in my area that Ceanothus is good and an awesome fertile island where pines reestablish.

27.03.2025 02:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I worked for a lumber mill after high school to save money for college the boards we got came from Canada because the wood we harvested in the forests around the mill went to chippers and shipped to Asia.

26.03.2025 04:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d love to do more coordination and collaboration with Jason and ya’ll!

18.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah you should of stopped in Burns for a chat.

18.03.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Divergent drought responses in two cold desert shrublands The frequency and intensity of extreme droughts are projected to increase in the future, yet current research indicates that ecosystem sensitivity to extremes will vary. Despite hundreds of observati....

Do sagebrush communities with different focal species respond differently to drought? Short answer, YES! check out our new paper to see how non-tridentata Artemisia cana and Artemisia arbuscula sagebrush communities express divergent responses.
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17.03.2025 20:02 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

And I look forward to those students coming up to Oregon for Science in the Sage Steppe!

15.03.2025 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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