We are seeking to hire a lead Postdoctoral Research Associate to lead a National Science Foundation funded project to identify adaptive water use strategies to cope with extreme thermal stress across a wide range of plant functional types. The project will be based at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ, where the postdoc will…

Do you teach community ecology or are you hoping to learn more about it? I’ve just released a set of 9 computational labs (plus solutions) that I have historically used to teach population and community ecology. They involve learning modern tidyverse R plus various data manipulation techniques, and also enable students to engage with numerous…

Botanical Entanglements: An Ecological Art Exhibit UC Botanical Garden March 12-18| 10 am – 4 pm daily | Free with Admission Botanical Entanglements is a site-specific ecological art exhibition that explores embedded histories in plant form. With this work, artist and ecologist Dr. Juniper Harrower is interested in the ethnobotanical histories and localized ecologies of…

Co-author Ian Breckheimer recently put together a beautiful visualization of our recent paper on cytotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen – check it out!