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Ecosystem Ecology Research at Bryn Mawr College

03/17/2024

Sending you all warm wishes from students and faculty participating in the Bryn Mawr College "Coasts in Transition" 360 trip to South Water Caye, Belize

08/20/2023

Last week students from Bryn Mawr College, with help from students from Northeastern University, and staff from the Woodwell Climate Research Center collected over 4000 individual plant samples, and measured traits on over 2000 plants. Working collaboratively, we now have data for the 21st year of the TIDE project! Long term data from this experiment will help us understand how ecosystems can recover from chronic nutrient pollution, and this year we also collected data on plant fitness traits to inform evolutionary processes.

07/29/2023

A record setting annual census during a record setting heat wave. This year 6 members from my lab group from Bryn Mawr College helped measure and record the height and traits on thousands of plants at the Phragmites elevated CO2 & N experiment at GCREW in only two days instead of the typical three. The heat was intense, but starting each morning at dawn ensured we were off the marsh by the heat of the day. The data collected from this experiment serves many purposes. In addition to informing our knowledge on ecosystem responses to near future global change and species invasion, data collected from this experiment will calibrate models to determine the influence of rapid evolution to global change.

A special thanks to my amazing crew from Bryn Mawr, Andrew Peresta for organizing the whole event, and to lab alum, Rachel Hager, for coming back to GCREW to volunteer for a day nearly a decade after your time at Bryn Mawr.

06/10/2023

This past week, members of my lab from Bryn Mawr College joined their fellow lab members, who are conducting an internship at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, at the Smithsonian GCREW. We measured plant traits and photosynthetic rates on plants in a long term elevated CO2 and nutrient enrichment experiment. These data will help calibrate a carbon cycling model that will combine ecosystem ecology with evolutionary processes to help us determine the consequences of rapid evolution from global change. We also had an opportunity to visit our field site at Parker's Creek, found some fossilized shark teath, and spent the last evening kayaking. Great week of field work.

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