Lab News

RECENT NEWS:
December 2024: Post-doc Matteo Petit Bon was awarded QCNR Staff Researcher of the Year!

May 2024: PhD student, Emily Santos, joins the lab!  She comes from UC Davis and will be working in our Alaska field site in the summer 2024.

April 2024:
Undergraduate researcher, Christina Chirvasa, is awarded the 2024 USU and QCNR Undergraduate Researcher of the Year award. 

Prof. Beard is awarded 2024 USU and QCNR Faculty Researcher of the Year award.

MS student, Taylor Saunders, successfully defends her thesis - 'Herbivore effects on litter quality and quantity and influences on carbon cycling' - way to go, Taylor!

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
May 2024:  Karen Beard presents at the Luquillo LTER meeting in Puerto Rico "Coquis moving up mountains?"

April 2024: MS student, Tyler Williams, presents our results at ITEX in Vancouver: 'Effects of flooding, herbivory, and warming on plant communities and greenhouse gas emissions: a mesocosm study in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska'

April 2024: Post-doc Matteo Petit bon presents our results at ITEX in Vancouver: 'Flooding increases plant biomass in warmed and ambient high-latitude coastal wetland'

April  2024: PI Katharine Kelsey presents our results at ITEX in Vancouver: 'Flooding and warming alter summer land-atmosphere gas exchange in a high latitude coastal wetland'

December 2023: Undergraduate, Christina Chirvasa, presents her results at USU's Undergraduate Research Symposium, "Climate change effects on plant functional traits in the Alaskan subarctic​"

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
​January 2025: Post-doc Matteo Petit Bon  publishes with Karen Beard and other Arctic collaborators in Ecology: Goose grubbing and warming suppress summer ecosystem CO2 uptake differentially across high-Arctic tundra habitats

September 2024:  Post-doc Matteo Petit Bon led our lab's paper in Journal of Ecology Projected near-future flooding and warming increase graminoid and plant-community biomass in high-latitude coastal wetland
It was selected as Editor's Choice!

May 2024:
Past PhD student, Leandro Do Nascimento and Beard publish with collaborators, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Time and habitat structure shape insect acoustic activity in the Amazon

January 2024:
The lab was part of the group Drought-Net paper Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally in PNAS

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