Our paper evaluating effects of experimental warming in soil respiration is finally out!!

The #ForestWarming team at #ESA2025 😍 @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @tanawood.bsky.social

USDA will close its flagship, but deteriorating research site in Maryland as part of a major reorganization aiming to shift 2600 employees away from the nation’s capital area. The agency also said it plans to shutter most of its forest research stations around the country. scim.ag/3J2aNZC

Don't miss our session at ESA 2025 on Advancing Ecological Understanding Through Ecosystem Manipulations: Past, Present, and Future!

For the past year, my father and I have been renovating a house in Puerto Rico and it’s now available to rent via Airbnb. I am really proud of what we have done! www.villaselvaflor.com airbnb.com/h/villaselva...

Unsure what it means to have a single research station in Fort Collins, CO. Is the plan for us to stop serving large portions of our communities? 🤔 or just centralize leadership? Details are currently sparse. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Building a drought experiment in a tropical rainforest? Call 0800-LUQTEE for all tips & tricks! Building "only" took us a year. Now we celebrate & see data coming in to study tree responses to drought! With @smithmartin.bsky.social @jesterkz.bsky.social @tanawood.bsky.social & many more not on bsky

Creative solution to prevent our automated soil respiration chambers from flooding! It’s a constant battle.

There is still time to apply! Opportunity closes on March 28!

Official reinstatement of a colleague happened yesterday!! He was one of the probationary employees that was let go on Valentine’s Day.

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I’m crying… it has been so hard watching this happen to such talented scientists and civil servants and I really hope this leads to positions getting reinstated. There’s still reduction in force plans to get through, but this win feels good.

Catch TRACE #ForestWarming in the Globo Repórter, a Brazilian documentary tv show📺 USDA Forest Service Research Ecologist and TRACE PI, Dr. Tana Wood @tanawood.bsky.social was interviewed in Apr 2024, while the team showed #fieldwork techniques🌿 Link for more! www.forestwarming.org/media-coverage

ORISE Postdoc opportunity to study C cycling in long-term warming exp (@forestwarming.bsky.social) in Puerto Rico. Stipend = $72,000 (12 mo) + medical & $3,000 for travel. Possibility to extend pending availability of funds. Start = April/May. Remote work allowed. www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

TRACE joins Bluesky! We are an in-situ field #warmingexperiment located in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo Experimental Forest. We study #climatechange effects on #tropicalforests, particularly carbon and nutrient cycling. Warming began Sep 2016 with 4C above ambient temp🔥 For more: www.forestwarming.org

ORISE Postdoc opportunity to study C cycling in long-term warming exp (@forestwarming.bsky.social) in Puerto Rico. Stipend = $72,000 (12 mo) + medical & $3,000 for travel. Possibility to extend pending availability of funds. Start = April/May. Remote work allowed. www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...