(A guest post by first author and PhD student Clarke Knight) Ice, a powerful sculptor of landscapes, covered large swaths of North America up until 21,000 years ago. During their greatest extent, ice sheets scraped and gouged their way across what is now the upper Midwestern US, creating thousands of lakes – including the five…

Our summer student Gavin Belfry was just featured by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Learn more about his work and experience in the mountains at: https://www.rmbl.org/article/science-story-dec-2019/ For University of Tennessee undergraduate Gavin Belfry, the summer of 2019 was particularly seedy. He spent the summer assisting with Dr. Benjamin Blonder’s seed distribution research at RMBL. For…

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”.…