We’re just 21 days away from FRSES 2024!! #frses2024

New seminar class just dropped: Academia for Ecologists (ECOL 592-006). What the hell do 'vice provosts of research' even do? How do I negotiate salary? Why do I have to pay a journal to publish?? Let's find out together!! (course starts Mar 19 but gotta register now)

Pleased to share our new publication on tree mortality and greening. A great pleasure to work with many colleagues on this project including @SethMMunson

☀️ Want to learn more about Ecovoltaics? ☀️Check out my new article for The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/solar-power-oc…

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VPD, not temperature, limits tropical photosynthesis 💧 📖 ow.ly/IqAK50REahq by Slot et al. Martijn Slot Sami Rifai Eze Chinedu

What the LI-6800 sees when you’re leading a field methods in plant ecology course LI-COR #ecophys 📷:Josie Otto

For those who weren't there to smell it, watch as Cosmo the corpse flower blooms 👀 Thousands flocked to #ColoradoState over Memorial Day weekend to see a rare corpse flower during a bloom that was eight years in the making. Learn and see more ➡️ col.st/SrhXf

New research detailing how solar arrays impact the plants beneath. See below (and more at): ecovoltaicscolorado.wixsite.com/ecovoltaicscol… Solar arrays create novel environments that uniquely alter plant responses - Sturchio - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper alert 📝 Solar arrays create novel environments that uniquely alter plant responses. We discuss how diurnal patterns of ψL and gsw provide mechanistic insight for the microenvironmental controls of ANPP! Read more here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp…

Audio: Ecovoltaics aims to co-prioritize energy production and ecosystem services, which could mean growing crops, providing grazing land for animals, or even increasing carbon sequestration. #AgrivoltaicsCon eos.org/articles/solar…

New paper alert 📝

Using the proposed 880 MW solar park in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, as a case study, a recent paper highlights the importance of aligning green energy with biodiversity conservation goals. Munib Khanyari Nature Conservation Foundation Matt Sturchio Alan Knapp ✒️Nikhil Sreekandan india.mongabay.com/2024/12/solar-…

Very excited to have this out (and in Nature Geoscience, no less!). We returned to in-field incubations of isotopically enriched litter and pyrogenic OM ten years after inception, and were able to glean some insights into the persistence patterns of the SOM that was formed.

Strategically converting a small fraction of land used to grow corn for #ethanol to #solar facilities could vastly increase energy production per hectare and provide ecological benefits and financial resiliency for farmers. Cornell CALS PNASNews #EarthDay news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…

Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years theconversation.com/solar-panels-s…

Agrivoltaics in New York! 🧑‍🌾 Check out our new paper reporting how the microclimate ☀️🌧️🌡️created by solar arrays controls patterns of crop productivity during a fall growing season. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Environmental Heterogeneity Imposed by Photovoltaic Array Alters Grassland Soil Microbial Communities 🔗 buff.ly/uVI7vzu Alex Siggers Matt Sturchio CSU Department of Biology Alan Knapp