Adventures of an Ecologist
Adventures of an Ecologist
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In June 2019, my post-doc Paulo Bittencourt and my PhD student David Bartholomew returned to Sepilok in Malaysian Borneo for a soil collection campaign. They are trying to understand how different soil characteristics determine the fine-scale distribution patterns of the dipterocarp trees across an environmental gradient. Over one month, they collected over 1000 soil samples […]
Site visits to Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brazil, May 2019 Recently I visited the location of my latest project to investigate how to test the effectiveness of restoration techniques in savanna vegetation in Brazil. We visited restoration experiments in the Chapada dos Veadeiros national park in Brazil. The trip was brilliant, we found some excellent locations […]
The birth of my baby girl My latest and best adventure yet has been the birth of my baby girl. It brings a whole new, brilliant challenge to life and academia. I owe a huge thank you to the colleagues that have supported me through my pregnancy and are continuing to do so during my […]
Installing new sapflow sensors in Bobiri semi-deciduous forest in Ghana In collaboration with Prof. Yadvinder Malhi (Univ. of Oxford) and Dr. Stephen Adu-Bredu (FORIG) I travelled to Ghana in June 2017 to install some new sapflow sensors into trees to look at the effects of seasonality on tree transpiration. [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] […]
In 2017 I returned to the Caxiuanã drought experiment for another 6 weeks with a team of 9 people to extend the work of our 2016 campaign to the forests largest and smallest trees. We focused heavily on how hydraulic and photosynthetic traits in saplings contrasted those of the canopy giants. [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] […]
Fieldwork Measuring Functional Traits at the Worlds Longest Running Tropical Forest Drought Experiment In 2016 myself and a team of 10 students and technicians spent 6 weeks at the Caxiuanã drought experiment site, where a 1ha patch of forest has been receiving only 50% of the canopy throughfall since 2002. On over 150 trees of […]