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Welcome! We are interested in the dominance and diversity of plant species in nature. We study how species interactions, soil feedbacks, and disturbance may help determine these patterns. We use this understanding to address problems of invasive species, environmental change and habitat restoration. |
LAB NEWS
June 2008
- Congratulations to graduating seniors in our group, including Michelle, Marlyse, Warren, and Marrissa.
- Welcome to our incoming REUs: Catherine (Oberlin '11, who will be spending her summer at UCI) and Elizabeth (Univ. St. Thomas '09, who will be at Niwot Ridge).
- Goodbye to Isabel who is starting a job with the National Park Service, Stan who is starting as an assistant professor at Iowa State, Becky, who starts her PhD program at Georgia, and Jane, who starts her PhD at New Mexico State!
- Congratulations to Matt, whose paper on 70-year invasion patterns of coastal sage scrub was accepted in Landscape Ecology.
- Both Rebecca and Heather received GK-12 fellowships for 2008-2009. Well done!
May 2008
- Rebecca was awarded the Edward A. Steinhaus Memorial Award, a testament to her promise as a future educator.
- Michelle was awarded the Robert Ernst Prize for Excellence in
Research. In addition, Cynthia and Marlyse completed UROP
research projects. All three presented in the undergraduate research
symposium in May.
- Congratulations to Marko, who successfully defended his dissertation proposal and advanced to candidancy.
Dinner at the Faculty Club, May 2007
- Leah received an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her work on the invasion of Coastal Sage Scrub.
- Loralee received an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship (one of only two
awarded campuswide)! Becky received honorable mention.
- Heather received a Pedagogy Fellowship from the UCI Instructional Resource Center.
- Katie received the 2008 UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor
Award for Research.
- Congratulations
to Isabel, whose paper with
Katie on resource partitioning in the tundra was accepted in Oecologia.
- More congratulations to Isabel, who is getting married this spring!
- Katie's paper with Tim Seastedt and Richard Hobbs
about novel ecosystems and restoration (Frontiers in Ecology and Environment)
is getting some press (news
release)
- A paper by Stan, Dan and Katie on nitrogen and water co-limitation in California Grasslands was published in Global Change Biology.
- Congratulations to Michelle and Marlyse, who received undergraduate research (UROP) awards.
- More papers from
the fertilization synthesis work! David Chalcraft lead a paper on
effects of N
on beta-diversity (in press in Ecology) and -- thanks to Elsa
Cleland -- the
complete dataset will be available as a data paper (also in press in Ecology).
- The plight of the burned DOE experiment was covered in a front-page article in the Orange County Register, including great photos from Jane.
- Congratulations to Isabel and Ryan whose paper with Katie on resilience in alpine tundra was accepted in Ecological Monographs.
- Both Leah and Heather advanced to candidancy with flying colors. Nicely done!
- Loralee recieved a supplement fellowship from NSF for her work on invasions in California grasslands.
- Nico Gross, a visiting graduate student from the Lavorel lab in
Grenoble, defended his disseration and published "Complementarity
as a mechanism of coexistence between functional groups of grasses" in J. of Ecology with Katie and
Sandra.
Oak Trip October 2007
- Congratulations to Dan and Stan whose paper with Katie on the ecosystem consequences of artichoke thistle was accepted in Biological Invasions.
- Rebecca recieved a Newkirk Fellowship for her research on community assembly.
- Welcome to Loralee who starts grad school with us this month!
- Congratulations to Stan whose
paper with Katie on negative frequency dependence was accepted in Ecology Letters.
- Isabel presented at the NADP
conference in Boulder on the 12th.
- Margaret presented at the Cal IPC
conference on the 20th.
- Goodbye to Dan who starts his faculty position at Buffalo State, Kim who starts her graduate studies at Yale, and Diana who starts her graduate program at Columbia. Good luck!
Niwot 2007