This is a big deal, I promise. nature.com/articles/s4324… Brian Schubert

Trees tolerate extreme heat by combining high evaporative cooling, high heat tolerance and stomata decoupling. Excellent new study led by the brilliant Alice Gauthey. Eugénie Mas EPFL-ENAC WSL Umweltforschung Álex Tuñas onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

So happy to see this one out in Global Change Biology! Looking at how extreme heat impacts the physiological response of oak tree species in Europe 🌡️🌳🍂 Wonderful fieldwork in Spain , France and Switzerland with Grossiord Charlotte AlbertoVilagrosa Eugénie Mas Álex Tuñas and many others!

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

My favorite peanut physiologist Laura and I have finally begun our peanut drought collab! 🥜 ☀️ Day 1: we finished cavicam setup and installed all the leaf psychrometers.

Big news: I am honored to announce that I am the recipient of an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study sea turtle reproductive strategies.

Day 2: Who’s more stressed, our peanut varieties or the researchers? Ask us again after we look at this weeks data 💦 🌱 ☀️

Last day with Gerard Sapes and Laura - I almost broke the pressure bomb and it is 100 deg, but we had ice cream for lunch

It was an absolute honor to hood my first PhD candidate (Dr. PlantDaddy) and master’s student (Cross Heintzelman) this weekend at FLORIDA. A huge congratulations to them for all of the hard work they put into earning this moment and their degrees. Go gators! 🐊 🥳 🐊

After four years of hard work and late nights, I can finally say it—I'm officially Dr. Pitts 🎓 Yesterday, I earned my PhD from FLORIDA and it feels surreal. To everyone who supported me along the way, thank you!! #PhinallyDone

Absolutely… and this is a conversation that will certainly become increasingly common. When is irrigation sustainable? #viticulture #wine

A nice commentary by Alice Gauthey and Dr. Anna Gardner highlighting our recent New Phytologist paper with Sami Rifai, former Smithsonian Panama postdoc Eze Chinedu & my colleague Klaus Winter Commentary: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

We are happy to share HyperPRI: a dataset of rhizobox hyperspectral and RGB images of peanut and sweet corn roots, with temporal data and mask annotations. Access the data and get more details here: faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni… #HyperspectralImaging #ComputerVision #PlantScience

In order to undertake my 2 year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Spain I have applied for a ‘Visa de investigacion nacional ’ and just been hit with a $5000 AUD ‘tax’ for being Australian and I have questions Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 Australian Government (1/5)

New team Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences paper, "Hyperspectral Imaging Predicts Differences in Carbon and Nitrogen Status Among Representative Biocrust Functional Groups of the Colorado Plateau," led by Dong Yan w/ Sasha Reed, Miguel Villarreal, Mostafa Javadian, others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Thanks #EcosystemStability team for an epic week at the #PowellCenter! So many insightful conversations across systems=the joy of collaborative science!

Excited to officially start this September as an Assistant Professor Oregon State University , joining the Departments of Botany & Plant Pathology OSU Ag Sciences and Forest Ecosystems & Society OSUForestry ! Looking forward to research, teaching, and collaboration!

Climate change is drying out canopy plants—that could mean less water for the entire rainforest | PNAS pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Really nice long-term analysis of the connectivity between vegetation change, water use, and streamflow in a grassland (Konza LTER). Worth reading. Unexpected hydrologic response to ecosystem state change in tallgrass ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Career update and slight pivot: I’ll still be working for USDA-ARS full time, but I’m moving up to Raleigh and joining the Cardoso Lab to start up a high throughput phenotyping program. We’ll be working on rapidly assessing a variety of abiotic stresses across multiple varieties