Year 14 of seed-trap collections complete!

🌳 Tyson Research Center ForestGEO Plot

#ForestEcology #ForestGEO #SeedDispersal #TysonResearchCenter

Gaps in the groundcover plant community from burning trees - Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, The Jones Center at Ichauway, Georgia 🔥 🌱

#FireEcology #LongleafPineEcosystem #PrescribedFire

Enjoyed a wonderful visit to the longleaf pine ecosystem at The Jones Center at Ichauway.

Many thanks to David Mason for hosting me, @jefferybcannon.bsky.social for a tour of the Ichauway Forest Dynamics Plot & ForestGEO site, and The Jones Center community for a great seminar visit. 🔥 🌱 🌼

A big congratulations to Dr. Ethan Abercrombie on his PhD defense! 🎉

A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳

#ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter

A big congratulations to Dr. Anna Wassel on her PhD defense! 🎉

A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱

#ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter

Trilobite fossil - Mount Stephen Fossil Beds - The Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, Canada

A big thanks to the organizers, group leaders, and participants of the second-annual Amphibian & Reptile Count for a great field experience at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🦎 🐍

📸 credit: Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET) / Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Happy to be back at La Selva for an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) institutional-representative workshop.

My last visit was over 20 years ago as a graduate student in the OTS fundamentals course (Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach)🌴

📸 credit: Kyle Harms

A big thanks to Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social for hosting me for a seminar visit at UCR and a great day visiting field sites at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics Plot (San Jacinto Mountains) and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (Colorado Desert) ⛰️ 🌳 🌵

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Ecology!

Applications are open for the #TysonResearchCenter Undergraduate Fellows Program at WashU’s field station, including opportunities to join our summer forest #biodiversity & #fireecology team 🌳 🔥

Applications due Feb. 15

Reposts appreciated!

Packing only the essentials for a conference in #Liverpool

Excited to share results from the Madidi Metabolomics Project at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social #BES2024 conference in #Liverpool!

Stop by to check out our team’s poster in the Community Ecology session on Wednesday (Dec. 11) from 6:00-7:30 pm.