Looking back to the start of the TRACE #Decomposition Experiment this summer🤩 We’re studying how #warmer temperatures influence decomposition rates of Guarea guidonia, Cecropia schreberiana, and wooden popsicle sticks in #ElYunque National Forest #ForestWarming #Research #Tropical

Warming and terrain have significant impacts on the #CO2 emissions from #tropical soils. Read the feature by @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warm...

A year-long experiment in a wet tropical #forest found that 4°C of warming boosted soil CO2 emissions by 42-204%. These high rates suggest tropical #soils may release more #carbon under future warming than #climate models predict. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study on warming and free-living nitrogen fixation is out! Great work led by one of the lab alumni, Parker Bartz, the @forestwarming.bsky.social team and @psaima.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌎This study highlights the importance of considering cyclone disturbances when predicting liana-tree interactions and their impacts on forest dynamics and carbon storage in tropical forests 🌀🌴 👉 buff.ly/n0bXk2z

**Fellowship opportunity (graduate/postdoc)** - The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program is accepting applications through October 15. Postdoc fellowships have always received a 2nd year match from the host unit. Come join us! fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/...

Early to mid-career ESA members who received a PhD within the last 20 years are encouraged to apply for the ESA Excellence in Ecology Scholarship! Get $5k for research & publication support, and meeting attendance. Learn more & apply by 9/19: esa.org/about/divers...

TRACE techs, past intern, and manager presented at #ESA2025 🔥 We covered topics such as #soil CO2 fluxes from an incubation experiment, #fineroot dynamics in a #drought experiment, mat forming #fungi under warming, and #engagement of #PuertoRican students through our #ForestWarming project.

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

Final TRACE talk at #ESA2025 Join the conversation about fostering engagement of Puerto Rican students in ecological research! #ForestWarming #Research #Ecology #Accessibility #ResearchNetworks

Coming up next! Catch @tanawood.bsky.social at #ESA2025 at 1:45pm #ForestWarming #drought #TropicalForest

Come see our talk at #ESA2025 this Wed morning! #ForestWarming #SoilBiogeochemistry #carbondioxide

Don’t miss our poster session at #ESA2025 today (Tue Aug 12) at 5:00pm 🌱🫚 TRACE technician Laura Rubio will talk about fine root biomass and production in the LUQ-LTER drought experiment. #fineroots #rootbiomass #tropicalecology #ForestWarming #drought

Measuring height, moisture, and mass of the standing litter layer inside the #TRACE plots. Also subsampling for nutrients! Looking forward to comparing between warmed and control plots. Part 1 of our 2025-2026 #decomposition experiment. #ForestWarming #ElYunque #PuertoRico #Ecology

Visit from the Geospatial #DataScience Training, a collaboration between University of Puerto Rico, USDA, & Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of #PuertoRico 🏫 This was great for our team to practice #sciencecommunication and #outreach🗣 #ForestWarming #STEM #Research #ElYunque

First day in the #field for #interns Daliz and Sofía🥾 They learned how to perform project inspection, returned unused #soil to the field, and helped remove old scientific equipment💪 #ForestWarming #TRACE #ElYunque #STEM #Science #Research #PuertoRico #TropicalEcology

New interview by Dr. Tana Wood and Spectrum Noticias @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social “Biólogos realizan estudio sobre el cambio climático en el bosque El Yunque de Puerto Rico” spectrumnoticias.com/ny/nyc/notic...

TRACE Summer 2025❗ Please join us in welcoming our new summer cohort! We have a mix of interns 🏫, PhD candidates, Postdocs, and PIs. Stay tuned for introductions, lots of research, and summer fun! 😄 #TRACE #PuertoRico #ElYunque #ForestWarming #Research #STEM #LTER

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

Flowers of the #PuertoRico royal palm (𝙍𝙤𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙖) fell in the #TRACE leaf litter baskets🌸 #ForestWarming #Nature #ElYunque #Observation #PuertoRico #leaflitter #TropicalEcology #Ecology #biomass

Interested in careers outside academia? Next Wednesday, May 7, at 10 PT— Join our Career Forum to learn what folks do with a science degree—from tribal work to consulting. Put on with CESU! Check it out below, and register at the link! lternet.edu/events/91881/

Soil is precious!⭐️ Returning unused #soil to the #ForestWarming field site. #tropical #soil #puertorico #elyunque #research #soilbiogeochemistry #forest #science #stem

Congratulating Nibia Becerra Santillán for her #research with Deyaneira Ortiz Iglesias, @csoconn.bsky.social @tanawood.bsky.social: field manipulation & lab incubation exp looking at the impact of manipulated rain, antecedent #soil moisture & #warming on soil C, N, microbial dynamics & soil GHG🎉

Field technician opportunity in #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...

Recently replaced a #soil moisture and temperature sensor at the #TRACE site 🤩 #ForestWarming #TropicalForests #SoilScience

I'll be presenting my work on tree growth in an everwet forest in Puerto Rico at the ForestGEO seminar next week! Mar 19, 2025 09:00 AM, EST time. Register here for the link: smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Started #fieldwork just before sunrise for collection of canopy photos and leaf area measurements inside the #TRACE plots. #ForestWarming #TropicalForest

A Deeper Green Tomorrow "Tropical canopies are not simply tall green domes but living tapestries woven by soil, climate, and time."

Did you know the LTER maintains a thriving job board? From REU positions to faculty hires, our sites have dozens of openings each year. Several just got posted! You can check them all out here: lternet.edu/opportunities/

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

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Oct 2024: TRACE tech Deyaneira Ortiz visited schools in the West coast of #PuertoRico & talked about #oceanacidification, #soil & the #ForestWarming project!👩🏽‍🏫 Through this effort by Luquillo #LTER Data Jam, students asked questions & were excited to learn throughout! #Outreach #Education #Science

ORISE Postdoc Opportunity with USDA Forest Service to study C cycling in TRACE, a long-term warming experiment in #PuertoRico Starting April/May 2025, remote work available. 12 month stipend ($72,000) + medical & travel ($3,000). Extension is fund dependent. 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