Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network
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
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
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
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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