Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network
Join the Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network Seminar on April 28th from 11:oo AM to 12:30 PM AKDT to hear the latest from coastal margins researchers on terrestrial and marine processes in the North Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest. Register for this virtual event. 11:00-11:20 AM - Carbon cycling and budget studies on Vancouver Island: Preliminary … Continue reading Coastal Margins RCN Spring Webinar
For Megan Behnke, Juneau’s coastal temperate rainforest represents the familiar and the unknown all at once. Behnke, who was born and raised in Juneau, joins the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center (ACRC) this month as a postdoctoral researcher funded through the Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network over five years after first engaging with ACRC as a … Continue reading Postdoctoral researcher Megan Behnke joins the CRMRN
Coastal Margins Network researcher Christian Mohr is accepting applications for a 3-year PhD-position for Trees Trigger Trouble – Landsliding by Biomass Surcharge and Wind Disturbance in Patagonian Rainforests (RETROGRESS), a DFG-funded ecogeomorphology project in the Patagonian Andes of Chile (75% TVöD 13). The PhD student role will be on the integration of theory with field … Continue reading PhD Student Position: Landsliding by Biomass Surcharge and Wind Disturbance in Patagonian Rainforests
Join the Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network Seminar on November 16 from 11:oo AM to 12:30 PM AKST to hear the latest from coastal margins researchers on terrestrial and marine processes in the North Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest. Register for this virtual event. 11:00-11:20 AM - Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Predict Harmful Algal Blooms … Continue reading Coastal Margins RCN Seminar
An exciting new NSF funded project studying the role of past forest management and natural disturbances in constraining or promoting future conservation, harvest, and carbon-market activities is starting in 2021. There is one PhD opportunity to work on this exciting project at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado. The project will quantify carbon stocks … Continue reading PhD student position: Forest disturbance, carbon accounting, and geospatial patterning in coastal Alaskan forests
The Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center welcomes a new postdoctoral researcher today, oceanographer Mariela Brooks. Brooks' work is funded by the Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network, for which ACRC is a host institution. She joins ACRC following her doctoral studies in Marine Chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Brooks found her interest in oceanography … Continue reading CRMRN provides funding for oceanographic researcher Mariela Brooks
Far from his home in Potsdam, Germany, Christian Mohr attended the third Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network (CRMRN) workshop in Juneau, Alaska last March. Along the way, he had the opportunity to finally meet with distant collaborators working in his field and make connections from his research in the temperate rainforests of Patagonia to the … Continue reading Cross-continental collaboration through the Scientist Exchange Program
Announcing the fall Coastal Margin Webinar series! Hear the latest in coastal rainforest margin science from CRMRN network members each month this fall. For a list of upcoming webinars and registration information, visit the Coastal Margin Webinar page. If you are interested in presenting at a future webinar, please contact Molly Tankersley.
The CRMRN will be sharing Q&As with graduate and postdoctoral network members throughout the summer and fall. Stay tuned! Meet Liz Kreitinger. Liz is an MS/PhD student in the Soil and Water Lab at Cornell University. With her advisor Todd Walter and CRMRN steering committee member Dave D’Amore, she is studying how watersheds process nutrients, … Continue reading Student Spotlight: Liz Kreitinger
A spray of rust-colored soil lands with a thud in the forest surrounding Juneau’s John Muir trail, disturbing the devil’s club for a moment. Over his shoulder, UAF soil scientist Diogo Noses Spinola is deftly swinging a shovelful of dirt downhill of us. He takes a break to let Raquel Portes, his partner and fellow … Continue reading Digging for answers in the temperate rainforest
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