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Daniela Cusack
@daniela-cusack.bsky.social
Just give me world peace and #rainforest #soil #carbon. Associate Prof. CSU. Check out my PARCHED science project in Panama: http://youtu.be/oDm2SKWHw78
colostate.academia.edu/DanielaCusack
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Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Check our my new group research website!
www.cusackcarbonsystemsgroup.org
Cusack CarbonSystems Group
www.cusackcarbonsystemsgroup.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nice news story on my group @parched-panama.bsky.social research on climate change and tropical roots!
news.mongabay.com/2025/07/trop... news.mongabay.com/2025/07/trop...
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hooray for our new collaborative tropical root data paper from the @tropiroot.bsky.social team!
esajournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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!
May 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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!
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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...
May 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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
April 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
April 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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!
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
tilt.colostate.edu
April 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thinking hard at the @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting about next directions in tropical root research!
April 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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!
April 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Available position as Researcher in Terrestrial Ecology in Tromsø! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/72-rese...
April 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
Call for Abstracts | ATBC2025
www.atbc2025.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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!
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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.
February 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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!
esa.org/baltimore202...
Call for Contributed Abstracts  – 2025 Annual MeetingTop of Page
esa.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
February 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
February 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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!
February 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Well this is bad. I guess I'll still submit my NSF proposal this week?
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
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
December 6, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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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!
December 6, 2024 at 5:26 PM