What drives tree growth after a hurricane? 🌀🌳 Hot off the press in @pnas.org today! We tracked 1,082 trees in Puerto Rico and found that pre-disturbance growth outperformed crown biomass loss and competitive release as a predictor of post-storm growth. The paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳 Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time. Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New #timber #tracing paper on power of combined methods. Study led by @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social & Barbara RV Meyer-Sand for African timber shows combining methods boosts reliability of tracing. With 3 methods: 95% of samples traced back to <100 km of origin. 🌎🌐🍁 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Super excited to share our new tracing paper!! This is the result of two PhDs and many amazing collaborators. Combining genetics, stable isotopes and multi-element analysis improves tracing results.

Excited to continue working on climate change effects on forests for the next two years!

#ATBC2025 was about (re)connecting and diving into tree growth, drought and heat! Great to see so many friends and colleagues from all over the world together in Oaxaca.

Looking ahead: meeting our working group members for the first time! Excited to kick off this collaboration as part of my new postdoc at Gent University, which will start in October.

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

Wrapping up our US train adventure, returning to NYC from visiting friends in Grand Junction, CO. The Rockies were breathtaking! Wish the US had high-speed trains—4 nights in 10 days on a train is a bit much. Still, so worth it! With my fav travel partner. :)

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...

Early mornings this week to measure predawn water potential in our tropical drought experiment! #LUQ-TEE Super pumped this is coming together as we're aiming to understand how these trees will cope with future droughts.

Last week to apply!

We are looking for women/non binary scientists based in NYC across all disciplines of STEMM. Applications open to PhD students and above, or researchers in industry👩‍🔬👩‍🎓🧕🗽This was so much fun last year! Scan the QR or use the 🔗http://soapboxscience.org/apply-to-speak-at-soapbox-science-2025/ to APPLY‼️

I'll be presenting at #AGU next week! Come join us on Thursday Dec 12, 2.20-2.30pm. I'll share my PD work on the importance of #water for #treegrowth in Puerto Rico! Also happy to connect to other folks - excited for my 1st AGU! #AGU2025 agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

1st post! Great to highlight my PD project: LUQTEE, the Luquillo Throughfall Exclusion Experiment! We study how trees cope under drought, with 3 experimental 20x20m drought plots in Puerto Rico. Point dendrometers, sapflow sensors, water potentials. And more! Pics from last week helping building.