Congratulations to Kate Hayes and Shelby Weiss, PhD students on our project, who just successfully defended their dissertations in Dec, 2022.
As of January 2023, Shelby Weiss will be a postdoc at the Great Rivers Lab in Illinois (http://www.ngrrec.org/) and Kate Hayes will be a postdoc at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, IES (https://www.caryinstitute.org/) in New York.
We are so proud of both of them and grateful for their hard work on our project.
The first two videos from our AK Reburns project have been released. They are paired with middle/high school curriculum and will be distributed (when the final two videos are completed) free to teachers. Grab your popcorn and watch these two videos, only four min each:
Shabaga, J.A. R Bracho, P.A. Klockow, M.S. Lucash and J.G. Vogel 2022. Shortened Fire Intervals Stimulate Carbon Losses from Heterotrophic Respiration and Reduce Understorey Plant Productivity in Boreal Forests. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00761-w
Figure 2. A conceptual model showing the different stages of vegetation, soil, and carbon flux components across mature forest and a spectrum of burn frequencies. Intact = flux chambers over unaltered subplot locations, Trenched = subplot locations trenched to sever roots and denuded of vascular vegetation. Dark = flux components of chambers covered to exclude insolation, Sun = uncovered chambers. RSGV = respiration of soil and all ground-level vegetation, RHNV = heterotrophic respiration and non-vascular vegetation; NEEGS = net ecosystem exchange of C from the ground surface; GPPGV = gross primary production of all ground-level vegetation, GPPNV = gross primary production of non-vascular vegetation.
Brian led a new paper on reburns in Alaska, co-authored by Kate, Shelby and me. Congrats Brian et al!
After finishing her Honor’s thesis summarizing FIA data from Alaska, Jannike got a new position at the Sierra Institute as a Collaborative Forest Management Apprentice. She will work at the intersection of applied research and capacity-building work to promote resilient forest ecosystems and rural communities.
Congrats!
Sierra Institute website: https://sierrainstitute.us/
Check out this story map about our project created by Melissa’s amazing Honor's student at PSU, Jannike Allen.
Melissa gave a talk about the project at Washington State University Vancouver campus on 2.25.2020
Reburns (number of overlapping fires, 1X, 2X or 3X burns) in the western U.S.
This paper, led by Brian Buma and co-authored by Shelby Weiss (PhD student w/ Lucash), Kate Weiss (PhD student w/ Buma) and Melissa Lucash was just accepted; early view version of the paper is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c70
Congrats Brian! You rock.
