👏Very proud of my PhD student, Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto, who successfully defended her dissertation today on "Patterns & Drivers of Vegetation Change in Pine Barren Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States" SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York! Congratulations Dr. Lumbsden-Pinto--well done! 💯‼️

🏆 Congratulations to our new MS student, Danny Wehner, for receiving Lowe-Wilcox Graduate Fellowship at SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York for his field research on the effects of mycorrhiza 🍄 on tree seedling 🌱 establishment across montane-temperate forest ecotones. Well done Danny!

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Hopkins on excellent MSc defense seminar “Plants on the move: Tracking 60 years of vegetation shifts on Whiteface Mountain, New York State” SUNY ESF We celebrated hers & other lab members’ accomplishments @ AltoCinco! Stay tuned for the papers!🌲🪻⛰️

These pretty new flowers of sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica/Anemone acutiloba) announce that true springtime arrived to Upstate New York at last. Did you know that the Cherokee used this plant to make tea to cure cough? Happy International Plant Appreciation Day! #Botany

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) in full bloom this weekend in upstate New York. As a spring ephemeral, this species produces flowers, fruits, & seeds before temperate deciduous tree canopy above leafs out, & it dies back afterward. #Botany

Congratulations to Dr. Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto on receiving the Outstanding PhD Scholar Award & completing her PhD SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York on pine barrens ecology (stay tuned for the papers!). It was a pleasure to serve as Joanna’s advisor & to celebrate her many accomplishments this week!

My amazing field team SUNY ESF @suny led by my CoPI & postdoc Nathan Kiel have just completed the first week of installing #Tomst sensors to quantify microclimate across temperate-boreal 🌳🌲forest ecotones on mountains in the northeastern US. Exciting and…more to come❗️

Exciting day @ The Steere Herbarium New York Botanical Garden with interns from SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York. The interns will spend the summer at the herbarium learning & assisting with the study of seed traits of neotropical dry forest trees 🌳 🌴 lead by Pablo López Bustamante from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Have you ever wondered what fire 🔥 & One Health have in common? If so read the new #BioScience American Institute of Biological Sciences review👇 led by Sam Gilvarg, a PhD student SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York. I was happy to contribute to this multi-author effort integrating diverse perspectives. doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

Excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Professor (full) SUNY ESF SUNY - The State University of New York starting Sept 1! It’s been a winding path across countries & continents. Thanks to my fantastic mentors, colleagues, & students who walked with me along the way. I could not have done it without you. 🥂

#Mediterranean #Botany on #Crete’s Katharo plateau & the Dikti range where Zeus was born: Kermes oak, Italian poppy & Garland daisy, Purple-star thistle, & Mediterranean cypress are just a few of many fun plants on the island that once nurtured the first European civilization.

Our lab is represented at the IAVS meeting by Rachel Hopkins who will discuss how elevational distributions of plants changed over 60 years with climate warming on the legendary Whiteface Mountain of New York State. If you can, check her talk out: Aug. 2, 1:30 PM, Spruce Suites

🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins SUNY ESF for her honorable mention 3rd place in the young scientist oral presentation award IAVS meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mountain of New York State. iavs.org/page/awards_or…

Our lab has 3 presentations Ecological Society meeting in Baltimore. Check them out if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm)

Adding the 4th & very important presentation Ecological Society from our lab - lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now a research ecologist Appalachian Mtn Club. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm

A lovely visit to Baltimore Ecological Society meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods at SmithsonianEnv w/great info about #NEON. Our lab had four presentations & we are now ready for a new semester SUNY ESF.

Done! A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by Dr. Nathan Kiel, Nathan Kiel, post-doc in our group.