These really cool figures highlight the impacts of environmental stress on trees and #treemortality 👇🏽 nationalgeographic.com/magazine/graph…

Whoa Dr. William Hammond recent Nat Comm paper gets a snazzy infographic in this month’s National Grographic feature on forest mortality!

Doing tree ecophysiology in field experiments. Where trees stop living in pots and start getting real. #realworld

Sunset over WSU in Pullman, WA. It's going to be a busy and productive semester!

Want to know more about fire effects on tree water transport and carbohydrates? Just click here 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…. 🔥🌲🔥📚 Dan Johnson Prof Alistair Smith Henry Adams Dr. Alex Thompson @pyrogeog Dr. Kara M Yedinak nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Let’s talk about fire and tree physiology 🔥🌲🔥. Check our work 👇about fire effects on tree water and carbohydrates! 🔥🌲💧🌲🔥Prof Alistair Smith Dan Johnson Henry Adams Dr. Alex Thompson Dr. Kara M Yedinak @pyrogeog

Hey tree-ring folks, I have a great undergraduate researcher looking for MS graduate study opportunities in dendroecology. Where is the best place to find job ads for #treering research assistantships these days?

Pro-tip: When applying for faculty jobs, please address the criteria in the job description! So if it says global change, be sure to relate your work to that. Otherwise you will be cut from the search, even if you have an impressive CV.

An awesome story on how forest restoration in Australia might prevent the next lethal pandemic (in humans). npr.org/sections/goats…

When I hear back on submitted proposals, especially from NSF, I expect to be rejected. I am surprised when they are funded. Today I was not surprised. So that panel better not be surprised to see that proposal again in a few months!

That's no moon.

Oh Snap!

I asked ChatGPT about #whatkillstrees. It did pretty well. Clearly its plugged into the literature. The future is wild and a bit frightening....and should I by thinking more about ROS in my work?

News coverage of our in-review work on timing and causes of western redcedar dieback. If only reviewers would take as much interest in the paper as the press is - maybe we could get it published! Arjan @lrpoutside Andrew Cinquini & others columbiainsight.org/new-study-soun…

Do we also see this disconnect in our data? I used a PCA to project the full dataset onto a linear sub space. Basically, if the angle between photosynthesis and growth is 0, that would imply perfect correlation! As the angle approaches 90 degrees, the vectors are independent.

Congratulations to Dr. Alex Thompson on publication of 1st PhD chapter in Nature Communications! Levels of knowledge: 1) photosynthesis drives growth, 2)environment limits growth > photosynthesis, 3) both growth and photosynthesis are co-limited. We go to #3! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

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New paper: The living piñon🌲in this photo (left) has tolerated drought treatment for 13 years (!). While a reasonable question is "why would you do this to that poor tree?" We asked: "how is this tree still alive?" Old reserves may be one answer. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Has AMOC run amok? Yikes!