Check out yesterday's Maine Public Radio piece about the northward range expansion of the "Southern" pine beetle, recently discovered by PhD student Caroline Kanaskie, MSc in ME and NH. mainepublic.org/environment-an… Caroline Kanaskie, MSc @FHReports Forest Health Watch @kasson_wvu COLSA PineBarrensAlliance

Even made a brief spot on the local news last night! wgme.com/news/local/des… COLSA #southernpinebeetle Northern Research

The Southern pine beetle news coverage continues, most recently tapping Caroline Kanaskie, MSc for a local TV spot. She's a natural! Click the big beetle for the video story. @unhresearchnews Matt Ayres @FHReports newscentermaine.com/article/life/a…

Hey! I am hiring a technician. I am looking for someone who wants to work very closely with me and have major input on all facets of the lab. You don't need to know everything, I/we will train you and we will learn together! **Please RT** tinyurl.com/44sph6pp DMs are open.

A couple of new European woodwasp (Sirex noctilio)/biocontrol papers for anyone keeping track: authors.elsevier.com/c/1egVD3kk-aPc… & neobiota.pensoft.net/article/75392/ FABI Flora Krivak-Tetley @unhresearchnews

Potentially interested in a PhD or POSTDOC on beetle-fungus-tree relationships? We will be hiring next year, get in touch early! [email protected] #invasives, #ecologicalstatistics, #phylogenetics

If you're wondering how southern pine beetle populations fared this winter, check out this little app: foresthealth.shinyapps.io/SPBWinterTemp/ Matt Ayres @unhresearchnews @FHReports Photo by: Caroline Kanaskie, MSc

Super cool! Perfect fodder for my entomology course. Fun fact: eating locusts and kin is the only form of entomophagy sanctioned by the Bible (Leviticus 11:22,24). Staggering outbreak abundances + propensity to devastate crops HAVE to be part of that story.

Looking to hire a postdoc to assess long-term consequences of non-native insects and diseases on carbon storage capacity in forests. More info/apply here: jobs.usnh.edu/postings/47799 Please share/RT! @kasson_wvu @LiebholdSandy USDA Forest Service @unhresearchnews

Forestry researchers Jeff Garnas and Matt Vadeboncoeur received Northeastern States Research Coop grants to study tree pests and fire as a tool UNH EOS UNH Ag Research COLSA unh.edu/unhtoday/2022/…

The sirex #woodwasp has invaded North America in 2004, but economic losses to #pines have so far been minimal - can this change? - article in NeoBiota by Flora E. Krivak-Tetley, Dr. Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Jeff Garnas and others - doi.org/10.3897/neobio…

I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2023! Lots of freedom to explore interdisciplinary research, but in the neighborhood of trait-based fungal dispersal & microbial movement ecology across spatial/temporal scales. Please RT! More info on how to apply: balachaudhary.com/join.html

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of New Hampshire on climate and other drivers of parasitoid success. See: mypages.unh.edu/garnaslab/para… Application review begins 10/1. Please RT! #eab @kasson_wvu @unhresearchnews

Beech bark disease is a widespread cankering disease of American beech trees. NHAES scientist Jeff Garnas & his team are trying to better understand the how this disease spreads, as well as how the trees respond to it. bit.ly/3JHWmIe @unhresearchnews UNH Cooperative Extension Forestry & Wildlife

Calling all potential postdocs with strong quantitative/data-wrangling skills to study impacts of nonnative insects and pathogens on forest demographics and carbon sequestration potential. Apply here: jobs.usnh.edu/postings/55010 and/or please share! COLSA

Happy to have contributed a chapter in this new open-access #foresthealth textbook, which features chapters on entomology and #invasivespecies (hat tip to Jeremy Allison Tim Paine, Bernard Slippers, and Michael Wingfield for serving as editors!): link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Chestnut trees 🌳 dotted the American landscape until a blight slowly destroyed them. Can careful breeding restore them? NH Public Radio talks with UNH Ag Research researcher Jeff Garnas on his work at UNH: nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-0…

Today's #NerdWord: Subnivium, the environment between snow and soil. Brought to you by this Science Friday episode featuring Chris Ziadeh, COLSA alumnus who studied with Jeff Garnas. Listen 🎧sciencefriday.com/segments/insec…

Congrats to PhD student Caroline Kanaskie, MSc for this nice piece of work! Get your copy here: mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/1…