Dr. Sydne Record attends book writing working group at NIMBIOS

While students in the Science and Society senior seminar were performing a peer review of their senior theses, Dr. Sydne Record had a chance to join colleagues in Knoxville, TN at the National Institute for Mathematic and Biological Synthesis to work on a book about remote sensing of plant biodiversity that will be published by Springer. Dr. Record’s contribution covers her NASA funded research investigating the relationships between biodiversity and geodiversity. Stay tuned for information about the book release next year.

Dr. Sydne Record presents at LTER All Scientists Meeting

The Long Term Ecological Research Network All Scientists Meeting was held this past week in Pacific Grove, CA. Dr. Sydne Record presented research from a cross-site LTER REU collaboration with REUs, Kyra Hoerr BMC ’20 (mentored by Sydne) and Cameo Chillcut (mentored by Phoebe Zarnetske). Dr. Record also had the chance to run a workshop on synthesis of long term community data based on work she is doing with the LTER Metacommunity Synthesis Group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. What a fun week of science, whales, and sun!

Nia Riggins honored as Francis Velay Fellow

Congratulations to Nia ‘Blue’ Riggins for her nomination as a Francis Velay Summer Research Fellow! This summer Nia is conducting summer research with Dr. Sydne Record at Harvard Forest on tree seedlings and their responses to light and soil pH. As a biochemistry major this opportunity enables her to explore the linkages between biology and chemistry through an ecological lens.

Congrats to Record Lab postdoc John Grady!!

Last week postdoctoral fellow, John Grady, in the Record Lab found out that a NSF proposal he wrote for the Rules of Life program was funded! This will provide support for John to do a second postdoc with Dr. Tony Dell at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center. Congralations, John!