Category Archives: Participant News
Novus Participant Updates
Several Novus participants have received awards and new positions recently. Janice Brahney is now heading the Environmental Biogeochemistry and Paleolimnology Laboratory in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University. Janice’s research focuses on the intersection between climatology, hydrology, … Continue reading
Research Highlight: A canopy shift in interior Alaskan boreal forests: Consequences for above- and belowground carbon an dnitrogen pools during post-fire succession
Novus steering committee member Michelle Mack (Northern Arizona University) and Novus participant Heather Alexander (University of Texas, Brownsville) recently published a study on the effects of post-fire successional patterns on nutrient cycling in boreal forests of Alaska. The authors found … Continue reading
Research Highlight: High and dry: post-fire tree seedling establishment in subalpine forests decreases with post-fire drought and large stand-replacing burn patches
Novus participant Brian Harvey (University of Colorado) and colleagues recently published a study on seedling establishment following fire disturbance in subalpine forests of the Rocky Mountains. Post-fire seedling establishment is an important metric in assessing forest resilience to fire, and … Continue reading
Lake States Fire Science Consortium Webinar: 400 years of fire history in the BWCAW
Novus participants Kurt Kipfmueller and Evan Larson and their colleagues are participating in the upcoming Lake States Fire Science Consortium webinar on Fire history, climate, and Ojibwe land use over the past 400 years in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area … Continue reading
Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Change
Novus participant Lindsey Gillson (University of Cape Town) recently published a new book titled Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Change: Using paleoecology to manage dynamic landscapes in the Anthropocene. The text integrates perspectives from archaeology, environmental history, and paleoecology to address … Continue reading
Research Highlight: Workshop 1 Manuscript, A framework to assess biogeochemical response to ecosystem disturbance using nutrient partitioning ratios
At the Novus Workshop 1, held at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in 2013, participants focused on temporal scaling of disturbance impacts, from individual disturbance events, to millennial scale changes in disturbance regimes. Out of these discussions, several participants developed the … Continue reading
Novus Scientist Exchange Program Site Visits: Volodymyr Trotsiuk and Dr. Neil Pederson
The Novus RCN is pleased to report on the seventh of our eight Novus Scientist Exchange Program (SEP) site visits! In September 2015, Volodymyr Trotsiuk (Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague) visited the lab of Dr. Neil Pederson (Harvard University). … Continue reading
Novus Scientist Exchange Program Site Visits: John Calder and Dr. Jonathan Thompson
We are pleased to report on the first of our eight scientist exchange program (SEP) site visits! In February 2015 , PhD candidate John Calder (University of Wyoming, in the lab of Bryan Shuman) visited Dr. Jonathan Thompson (Harvard University). … Continue reading
Research Highlight: Patterns and Causes of Piñon Pine Mortality in the Southwestern United States
Novus participants Arjan Meddens and Jeff Hicke (University of Idaho) recently published a Tansley Insight study analyzing the recent wide-spread die-off of piñon pine throughout the southwestern United States. The study (full citation below) combines 21 different observational studies throughout … Continue reading
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