We celebrated a big event today – lab thesis student Miguel Duarte just graduated from the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Luiza and I attended the commencement ceremony to support him as he walked. He has worked with us for almost two years. Miguel is our first thesis student to graduate. We…

The lab has been to two conferences this week. Luiza Aparecido and I presented at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, and Courtenay Ray presented at the British Ecological Society in Belfast. Luiza was recognized with the prestigious Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe publication award for her recent paper, “Ecohydrological drivers of Neotropical vegetation in montane ecosystems”.…

The lab has two great oral presentations coming up at the AGU fall meeting next week in San Francisco – please check them out if you are attending! Luiza Aparecido Abstract ID: 620924 Abstract Title: Do tropical and desert plant leaves trade carbon gain against non-lethal temperature maintenance? Final Paper Number: B31D-07 Presentation Type: Oral…

Miguel Duarte is a lab student who has worked with us for almost as long as we have been at Arizona State University. He is in the process of writing up his undergraduate thesis on herbivory impacts on leaf functioning, and has worked with us in the laboratory and also out in the desert. He…