Lab News
RECENT NEWS:
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! Post-doc Matteo Petit Bon featured in this article in Utah State Today: "Move over Blitzen: Geese Outpace Reindeer Impacts on Arctic ecosystems" |
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
December 2023: MS student, Jenna Ross SDSU, presents our results at AGU, 'Temperature and flooding effects on CO2 and CH4 differ in four high latitude Arctic soils from western Alaska' December 2023: MS student, Bri Barr UCD, presents our results at AGU, '. Soil CO2 and CH4 emissions in Arctic coastal wetlands are influenced by both salinity and soil moisture' December 2023: Josh Leffler, SDSU present our results at AGU, 'Monitoring Merbok: Debris deposition, and pond-water and soil salinity post-typhoon in western Alaska' 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:
April 2024: Post-doc Matteo Petit Bon publishes with ITEX group in Nature: Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra January 2024: Past PhD student, Martin Holdrege, Karen Beard and Andrew Kulmatiski publish with DroughNet in PNAS: Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally December 2023: MS student, Taylor Saunders, publishes "Herbivores influence biogeochemical processes by altering litter quality and quantity in a subarctic wetland" in Biogeochemistry November 2023: Past MS student, Jack Marchetti, publishes in Journal of Experimental Zoology-A, 'Invading nonnative frogs use different microhabitats and change physiology along an elevation gradient' |