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

Excited to announce our Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 review synthesizing plant responses to fewer, larger rain events across field studies, models, and satellites. We focus on plant responses and mechanisms in the context of the contrasting behavior between dry and wet ecosystems.

Today in nature, Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy Director William Anderegg and his colleagues called on the trustees of Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to rescind their decision allowing #carbonoffsets for business' indirect #scope3 fossil-fuel emissions. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Biocrust is so beautifully portrayed in this film project I was fortunate enough to be a part of 😍 I am so grateful for the opportunity to tell a whole new audience (outdoor recreation enthusiasts!) about how amazing #biocrust is! #scicomm youtu.be/XguYw16YsDY?si…

Drylands in the western United States are currently in the grips of a 23-year “megadrought,” and WVU Mountaineers · Let's Go! researcher Steve Kannenberg is working to gain a better understanding of this extreme climate event. Read more about his study: bit.ly/3Ws22ge

Dynamic regulation of water potential in Juniperus osteosperma mediates ecosystem carbon fluxes Guo et al. Jessica Guo Dr. Mallory Barnes WK Smith 🌎 Steve Kannenberg 📖 ow.ly/mSSy50RB6cy

INVITED REVIEW Impact of aridity rise and arid lands expansion on carbon-storing capacity, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem services 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

📢📢 #Dryland folks attending #AGU24, please consider submitting an abstract to our session: "B059 - Intersections of Ecology, Hydrology, and Climatology in Earth’s Drylands" w/ @MPDannenberg Dr. Mallory Barnes Miriam Johnston Andrew Feldman Sasha Reed agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

Are you thinking about #AGU24 in DC this year? Do you study plant-microbe-soil interactions? Please consider submitting to session B097!! Caitlin Hicks Pries Rich Phillips agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

We are running our drought session again at #AGU24. Fellow fans of water and heat stress, please consider submitting! @JuliaKGreen1 Meng Zhao Brandon Strange, PhD. agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

New #SpectralEcophysiology paper: “Hyperspectral signals in the soil: Plant–soil hydraulic connection and disequilibrium as mechanisms of drought tolerance and rapid recovery”, from Yangyang Song’s postdoc in my lab, w/ Gerard Sapes, Alina Zare, et al.: doi.org/10.1111/pce.15…

I provide some context to the nice recent vegetation water content (via VOD) paper(s) by Yitong.YAO Christian Frankenberg Vincent Humphrey and others. I am super excited to see so much use of satellite vegetation optical depth (VOD), which has really taken off recently agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Calling all physiologists: Now Hiring! Teaching Assistant Professor - Department of Biology- 24752 wvu.taleo.net/careersection/…

Super excited to see more of our ecovoltaics research out!

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…

Money trees: WVU researchers looking at local benefits from climate fighting ability in Appalachian forests dlvr.it/TBgMTX

New paper in Global Change Biology Eastern US forests are shifting to more mesic species and the climate is expected to get drier. The two combined indicate drought will have a bigger impact in the carbon budget in the future. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…