Last week, students in Jackie’s Wellesley College course BISC 307: Ecosystem Ecology, constructed and installed a micrometeorological flux tower to measure ecosystem-microclimate feedbacks on Wellesley’s campus. We… Read more “Ecosystem Ecology Course Constructs Micromet Tower”
Talk at GRC: Unifying ecology across scales
Jackie recently presented a talk titled ‘The Challenge of Reconciling Earth System Models with Ecological Datasets Across Centuries’ at the Gordon Research Conference ‘Unifying Ecology Across Scales:… Read more “Talk at GRC: Unifying ecology across scales”
New NSF grant awarded for ecosystem impacts of forest insects & pathogens
Starting in January 2017, the Matthes EcoLab will be funded by the NSF MacroSystems program for the project, “MSB-ECA: A generalized framework for modeling the impacts of… Read more “New NSF grant awarded for ecosystem impacts of forest insects & pathogens”
Summer research in the Matthes EcoLab
Summer research is in full swing in the Matthes EcoLab at Wellesley College. Amanda Hernandez ’18 and Prapti Koirala ’19 have been collaborating with Jackie, Fiona, and… Read more “Summer research in the Matthes EcoLab”
New paper comparing CMIP5 models to data on pre-EuroAmerican vegetation
Matthes led a new article published in JGR-Biogeosciences that compared plant functional types (PFTs) within the CMIP5 pre-industrial control modeling experiment to reconstructed data just prior to… Read more “New paper comparing CMIP5 models to data on pre-EuroAmerican vegetation”
Wetland CH4 flux article published in JGR – Biogeosciences
A new article led by Cove Sturtevant and co-authored by Matthes was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. This article used wavelets and information theory to… Read more “Wetland CH4 flux article published in JGR – Biogeosciences”
NSF grant funded to investigate methane from agriculture and hydrofracking
Jaclyn and Gil Bohrer at The Ohio State University have started working on their recently funded NSF grant (NSF-CBET 1508994) to investigate fugitive methane emissions in the land-use… Read more “NSF grant funded to investigate methane from agriculture and hydrofracking”
Paper published in Biogeosciences
Check out our new paper published in the EUROSPEC special issue of Biogeosciences, which used a long-term dataset of near-surface canopy hyperspectral reflectance measurements to model landscape-scale… Read more “Paper published in Biogeosciences”
Wetlands Article Published in PNAS
Together with 43 international colleagues, Jaclyn co-authored a paper on the greenhouse gas footprint of natural, disturbed, and managed wetlands published in this week’s “Early Edition” of Proceedings of… Read more “Wetlands Article Published in PNAS”
