Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!
08.08.2025 22:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@parched-panama.bsky.social
PARCHED - PAnama Rainforest CHanges with Experimental Drying is a rainfall reduction experiment in 4 lowland forests in Panama! https://youtu.be/oDm2SKWHw78 facebook.com/PARCHEDpanama
Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!
08.08.2025 22:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New 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 to recent @parched-panama.bsky.social grad student Amanda Cordeiro on getting out this huge new synthesis on tropical roots, with a focus on responses to drought!
19.05.2025 15:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brunch 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!
15.05.2025 03:09 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0With @daniela-cusack.bsky.social and field specialist Eric Valdes at the drying plots!
08.05.2025 17:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats 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!
08.05.2025 17:36 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Bravo 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!
10.04.2025 19:26 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Submit 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
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!
18.03.2025 15:50 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Today 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!
esa.org/baltimore202...
Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
14.02.2025 04:15 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Great 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!
03.02.2025 15:25 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Well this is bad. I guess I'll still submit my NSF proposal this week?
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
smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
Go Alex! a beloved part of the @parched-panama.bsky.social team!
20.11.2024 18:21 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@parched-panama.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Happy to be here - check out our work on drying effects on tropical forests in Panama with @daniela7cusack.bsky.social @karis-mcfarlane.bsky.social @bsulman.bsky.social and many others!
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