May 2018
Back to working on manuscripts and preparing for field season. Looking forward to finishing up the data for the restoration project I worked on with the City of Austin last year.
New Phytologist manuscript was put out in their online early section today (doi: 10.1111/nph.15203)
New Phytologist manuscript was put out in their online early section today (doi: 10.1111/nph.15203)
April 2018
Our paper on belowground interactions and postglacial climate change has received confirmation of final acceptance!
My daughter was born on the 5th of April so no updates for a while as I'll be busy (for the next 20 years or so...)
My daughter was born on the 5th of April so no updates for a while as I'll be busy (for the next 20 years or so...)
March 2018
Teaching is over - the students seemed to really enjoy the course judging by the course feedback!
Congratulations to Gabriel Orrego for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis and being awarded an honours grade, which is rare at UBC. Looking forward to publishing his interesting work on carbon transfer between mature Western Hemlock and seedlings on decaying logs.
Congratulations to Gabriel Orrego for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis and being awarded an honours grade, which is rare at UBC. Looking forward to publishing his interesting work on carbon transfer between mature Western Hemlock and seedlings on decaying logs.
Feb 2018
Congratulations to Petra Guy on being accepted for the QMEE PhD position on "Future forests and wild woods" with me, Mark Tibbett, and Richard Sibly.
January 2018
Meg Cathcart-James and Alex Downing joined the lab as PhD students.
I started teaching my course on Reptiles and Dinosaurs of all things! 130 students! Madness, but a great opportunity to catch up on the last 17 years of reptile ecology.
I started teaching my course on Reptiles and Dinosaurs of all things! 130 students! Madness, but a great opportunity to catch up on the last 17 years of reptile ecology.
November 2017
I'll be presenting at the BMS open meeting at Kew on the 18th, looking forward to a day of fungal talks.
October 2017
Research in Austin was extremely rewarding if hectic! Carefully digging up seedlings rooted through several layers of rock while trying to preserve all mycorrhizal fine roots in 35 degrees C or above was challenging, but we managed to complete the project.
A new opportunity for a fully-funded PhD through the QMEE CDT - https://mhasoba.pythonanywhere.com/qmee_cdt/default/view_proposals/view/proposals/13
A new opportunity for a fully-funded PhD through the QMEE CDT - https://mhasoba.pythonanywhere.com/qmee_cdt/default/view_proposals/view/proposals/13
September 2017
The month began with two weeks of teaching in Ecuador at Cuyabeno Faunal Reserve and the Galapagos!
Thanks to generous funding from my department at the end of the month I'm going to Texas to work with research scientists from the City of Austin. Back in the office October 25th.
Thanks to generous funding from my department at the end of the month I'm going to Texas to work with research scientists from the City of Austin. Back in the office October 25th.
August 2017
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Started the month with a great visit to Simon Fraser University to see Rolf Mathewes and his amazing collection of plant fossils from the Okanagan Highlands during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. We've got the framework for a manuscript so watch this space.
July 2017
A few years after coming up with the idea for the "Paleosymbiosis Hypothesis" we finally published it in FEMS Microbiology Ecology! Here's an article in the Canadian press, with a link to my collaborator Jason Pither talking about it on CBC radio (and getting his fungal terminology right - great job Jason).
June 2017
An early fire season in BC means very little in the way of fieldwork. At least Jessica was able to get out and collect seedlings for her MSc project before it got too bad.