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Erica used eddy covariance & careful modelling to isolate how much GPP is enhanced or suppressed by wet extremes, finding the amount of suppression highly site-dependent

Konstantin, a PhD student in Germany, has been working with the VODNet network of GNSS sensors, and is visiting for three months. Welcome, Konstantin!

Erica won for her talk on building and analyzing the first large-scale record of plant rock moisture uptake time series. Congrats, Erica!

Thank you to the group members, mentors, and collaborators who have helped lead to this award!

Meng used simulations to compare the influence of temperature, water stress, and biomass on VOD and found a substantial role for temperature, despite routinely being ignored.

We use Sentinel-1 and FIA data to show that only 53% of explainable plant water sensitivity spatial patterns can be predicted by species. Thus, climate, soil, etc can't be ignored.

The short commentary (by Mazen Nakad) nicely contextualizes our work

Please reach out if you have an interest in working on wildfire, remotely sensed live fuel moisture, fuels management and more!

The review article discusses how changing rainfall intensity and frequency affects plants across dry and wet ecosystems, and identifies testable hypotheses. Alex is a co-author.

If you are interested in working on live fuel moisture content remote sensing, hybrid physical-AI modelling of plant hydraulics or wildfire dynamics, please apply!

Caroline (with Matt Worden & Lee Anderegg) studied the timescale on which climate is calculated for trait-environment relationships. Shorter-term climate periods should be used.