Kat Taylor, who was a 2021 participant in the DAPS REU program, graduated from Penn State this spring and while on a cross-country road trip stopped in Flagstaff to say hello. Kat had worked on greenhouse gas fluxes from biocrusts in an interdisciplinary project that included Andrew, Mariah, Matt Bowker (Forestry/Ecoss), George Koch (Bio/Ecoss), Mark Salvatore (DAPS), and David Trilling (DAPS) as mentors. During her visit, Kat said that the REU program had been “literally life-changing” for her. Good luck in all your future endeavors, Kat!
Debjani Sihi, assistant professor at Emory University (soon to be moving to NC State), visited the NAU and gave the last ecoinformatics seminar of the semester, “Modeling and mapping of soil organic carbon across scales.” Her work on both process-based modeling of soil respiration, and machine-learning-driven geospatial mapping of soil carbon stocks, was highly relevant to many students and faculty attending her talk.
Debjani was a postdoc (2015-2017) with long-time Howland Forest (Maine) co-PI Eric Davidson, and in connection with that work had previously visited Andrew’s lab at Harvard on several occasions. Her visit to NAU provided a great opportunity to dust off some vintage photos of the Howland Forest team from the days when they had regular team meetings at the Bartlett Experimental Forest in New Hampshire.
Howland Team 2016. From left: Andrew, Aaron Teets (NAU PhD 2022), Holly Huges, Kathleen Savage, Debjani, Shawn Fraser, Dave Hollinger, John Lee.
Howland Team 2008: Bryan Dail, Neal Scott, Holly Huges, Eric Davidson, Kathleen Savage, John Lee, Bob Evans, Andrew, Chuck Rodriguez, Dave Hollinger.
