Ackerly Lab

Scouting out sites for the 2014 Summer Drought Project.

Congrats to Chris DiVittorio who defended his Ph.D. – ‘Mechanisms of adaptive radiation in Encelia’!

I got back to Mt. Diablo yesterday to see the recovery following the Morgan Fire from early September 2013. Here are some paired photos from our first visit on Sept. 25, 2013 together with April 5, 2014. Link to album David

Congratulations to Meagan Oldfather, who has received an NSF Graduate Fellowship!! Welcome to Naia Morueta-Holme (just completed Ph.D., Svenning lab Aarhus), who will be joining the lab as a post-doc in July. And an advance welcome to Prahlad Papper and Rachael Olliff who will join the lab as Ph.D students next year.

TBC3 – a collaboration of the Ackerly lab with Pepperwood Preserve and other NGO and USGS researchers – has just completed a two year project synthesizing climate data, vegetation modeling and conservation planning in the Bay Area. See various reports on the tbc3 website (here) and information shared through the California Climate Commons.

On Aug. 1, the California Energy Commission published more than 30 new reports from the Third Assessment of the California Climate Change Center. Three of the reports were written by Ackerly lab and colleagues! See press coverage at Berkeley News Center and download reports at this CEC web site.