Nice news story on my group @parched-panama.bsky.social research on climate change and tropical roots!
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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!

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

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

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!

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!

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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She passed! Congrats Dr. Hedgpeth!

Alex Hedgpeth dissertation defense at UCLA Geography happening now!
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