Daniela Cusack

Nice news story on my group @parched-panama.bsky.social research on climate change and tropical roots!
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TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot held a large group meeting on May 19th, featuring engaging presentations and insightful discussions on various aspects of below-ground traits. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots

Hooray @njbouskill.bsky.social! Nice paper. And way to get on social media :)

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 for our new collaborative tropical root data paper from the @tropiroot.bsky.social team!
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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!

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!

Help others understand the breadth of biology by entering the Faces of Biology Photo Contest. #facesofbiology #iambiology #photocontest #aibs www.aibs.org/faces-of-bio...

I'm so sorry to hear this!

Image description: background of the Antelope Canyon, with text reading: " European Geosciences Union (EGU) logo and text stating 'EGU stands with American scientific societies".

EGU expresses its full #support for all #AmericanScientificSocieties, particularly our sibling organisations: the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Geological Society of America (GSA), and the American Geosciences Institute (AGI).
📷: Jihyeok Park, imaggeo.egu.eu

🔗 Read more : egu.eu/9WTBAC

Great day for undergrad root research with @parched-panama.bsky.social today at CSU! Undergrads Ally Lewis,.Maya McCain and Hailey Tharp did a great job, with my MS student Grace McLaughlin helping advise! GOOOOO tropical root research @tropiroot.bsky.social

CURC Day-of Documents | OURA | The Institute for Learning and Teaching Important information for CURC, including schedules, abstract booklet, building maps, digital presentation gallery, and community guidelines

Colorado State Community, please join be at the tilt.colostate.edu/oura/curc-da... undergrad research day this Thursday to applaud our great undergraduate researchers!

@baizalla.bsky.social me, Sarah Batterman, Jennifer Powers, Dani Yaffar, Amanda L Cordeiro, Kelly Andersen, Carol Miron, @lauratoro.bsky.social @laylugli.bsky.social

Thinking hard at the @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting about next directions in tropical root research!

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!

Available position as Researcher in Terrestrial Ecology in Tromsø! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/72-rese...

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

Meanwhile, advisor sitting at home in cold Colorado writing grant proposals. Grad students get all the fun!

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!

Protest in Boulder CO organized by former Rep David Skaggs:
Monday, March 3, at 11:45 outside the NOAA-NIST "campus" on South Broadway, just a bit south of the intersection with Baseline Rd. Those who work at the NOAA labs are at the forefront of understanding and tackling climate change.

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

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!

White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.

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

Great @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting today! We have many ideas and plans for understanding tropical root dynamics and responses to global change! With @kaaze7.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @nathalygr.bsky.social @carolmiron.bsky.social @lauratoro.bsky.social @baizalla.bsky.social

Great @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting today! Many great things in the works to advance our understanding of tropical root dynamics and responses to global change!

Great @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting today! Many great things in the works to advance our understanding of tropical root dynamics and responses to global change!

Congrats to Alyssa Schaefer on defending a great undergrad honors these on the importance of research experiences for the undergrad experience at Colorado State Univ!

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

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