Chris Schadt

Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...

Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Im suffering from a big case of nostalgia today after this trip and working there so many years and didnt take nearly enough photos.

Collected additional peat material for a planned incubation experiment and a sampling for survey of black spruce tree needle endophyte composition accross warming treatments.

Final peat coring campain of our decade+ effort on the SPRUCE experiment in MN this last week. We had a big team effort to complete 4X as many cores as in past campaigns (more replicates and archive material!),

Just pulled out my plots/sensors from Oregon on Wychus Creek the week before last. Last night 1 of those sites looks to have burned (top center circle) in Flat Fire, and fire is approaching another site just decommissioned at Camp Polk (bottom left circle) and outskirts of Sisters OR.

Field work! Weedy edition… Can you find the Populus deltoides?

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉

Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race' Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race'

Isn’t this lovely… :(

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Forest Service will phase out 9 Regional Offices…The current stand-alone Research Stations will be consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins

“Highlight”…. Not a single Regional office or Research station in the PNW. States with most majestic forest and some greatest producers of forest products

New paper alert! We are in the last year of the of our SPRUCE project now. Hope to get a few more from data in hand and collected this summer! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That’s not how entropy works. Please revisit the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You can play a video in reverse all you like but this is not a real thing.

Dismantling these departments that warn us about the weather is in Project 2025, and the core reason is they say these departments (RIGHTLY) drive “climate chang alarmism”, which “is harmful to future prosperity” (aka BIG OIL PROFITS)

On Sticks, Karats, and Charades: The Structural Dismantling of American Science The displacement of NSF employees from their headquarters opens a new front in the dismantling of American leadership in science.

This is the age we live in… they are just trying to punish all those involved in seeking truth.

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Good paper on this from 2006 but not clear whether they were introduced or got here on their own. - 2/2 scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcont....

Just took a walk on the trail along the Columbia River here in Richland. Pretty much every Populus I saw appears to be introduced or naturalized Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) rather than PNW native Black Poplar (P. trichocarpa) - 1/2

Plant transformation: 5 ways ORNL is creating better feedstock crops At the root of a thriving U.S.

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The biogeography and conservation of Earth’s ‘dark’ ectomycorrhizal fungi In this review, van Galen et al. use global soil metabarcoding databases to evaluate current estimates of the total number of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal species on Earth, outline the current state o...

Good friday afternoon read!
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Looking nice and healthy! I will be doing the same next week in Washington State. Targeting 6000 trees in replicated GWAS drought experiment! 🤓

Our oldest serving -80 is on its way to the scrap heap. Inherited it when I got to ORNL in 2003 although I think it’s at least 5yrs older than that. RIP old faithful!

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program

The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes about 90% of the funding for one of the country’s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs. 🌐🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

An analysis of the presidents budget impacts on Science. Overall DOE Office of Science seems to fair a little better but even this new budget release fails to detail where the nearly 14% cut is going to fall.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

This represents a systematic dismantling of the US STEM ecosystem that will create lasting negative consequences for innovation and competitiveness.