PhD Candidate, Boston University
What seemed impossible only a few weeks ago has finally happened – the snow has melted! It’s true! The snow is gone from the forest, the soils are soft and very wet, and slowly but surely the trees are making their way to full canopy! This ephemeral period of time between snowmelt and leaf out […]
Check out this amazing data visualization that NASA has put together showing the movement of carbon dioxide through the atmosphere over the whole Earth for one year. Be sure to note how much the emissions in the northern hemisphere are reduced in the summertime! Visit NASA’s website for a description of how the […]
A new experiment is currently being constructed at Hubbard Brook. This is a collaboration of Lindsey Rustad of the USDA Forest Service, Heidi Asbjorsen of UNH, and Pam Templer of Boston University. The idea is to manipulate the amount of precipitation reaching the forest floor and to explore how this change impacts forest ecosystem function. […]
Today I collected lots and lots of leaves from all the saplings in our climate change project here at Hubbard Brook. In this experiment we have lots of individual young trees which are experiencing temperature manipulations in both summer and winter. One of our hypotheses is that these treatments will affect the productivity of these […]
Today was a rainy day up at Hubbard Brook and I was out digging up data on how much nitrogen is moving down through the soil, past the roots, and likely out of the ecosystem. To do this, we bury ion-exchange resin bags in the soil below the rooting zone. These are water permeable nylon […]
BU Today has written a great profile of two of our undergraduate research assistants who have been collecting data for our climate change projects at Hubbard Brook. Check it out! Both Risa McNellis and Taylor Barrow worked with us this summer through BU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), along with Darian Marinas from Ohio State. […]