Pop-Up Global Symposia about Life & Ecology for You [PUGSLEY]

Núria Aquilué, CTFC, Spain & UQAM, Quebec: Functional complex networks to create resilient forest landscapes to global change

Mariah Patton, U New Mexico: What do we all need to know about mentoring?

Pankaj Trivedi, Colorado State University: Effects of experimental climate warming 

Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, Scripps Institute, UC San Diego: What archaeology can teach us

Avni Malhotra, University of Zurich:

Getting to the root of it: climate change in peatlands

Jasper Singsby, South African Environmental Observatory Network (SAEON): Fire and Global Change in Fynbos

Link to Slides

Jody Daniel-Simon, University of Waterloo - Precipitation timing influences wetland biological communities

Madelon Case, University of Oregon - Belowground niche separation of savanna trees and grasses across soil textures

Liz Agee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Beyond rooting depth: how lateral root interactions influence water uptake patterns

Fons van der Plas, University of Leipzig - Biodiversity and ecosystem function in real world and model systems

Science Communication

Peter Reich - Minute Earth Videos and Underlying Science

Charlotte de Keyzer - Protecting Pollinators

Andrew Reeves - A journalistic perspective?

Jon Henn, UW-Madison - Winter climate change and prescribed fire affect long- and short-term temperate grassland plant dynamics

Laura Ladwig, UW-Madison - Plant cold tolerance: Variation and trait associations in temperate grasslands

Adam Pellegrini, Cambridge University - Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits across ecosystems

Bruce Hungate, Northern Arizona University - Schubert Piano Sonatas (& the Beatles?)

Jennifer Powers, UMN - Hydraulic traits predict tree mortality in a tropical dry forest

Rob Jackson, Stanford (and mystery guests) - Poetry Crawl

Colleen Iversen, ORNL -The hidden world beneath our feet: From squishy bogs to frozen tundra (and everywhere in-between)

Check out Colleen's EOS paper on Building a Culture of Safety and Trust in Team Science

Michala Philips, USGS - Keystone dryland communities follow novel trajectories following chronic climate and physical disturbance

Peter Pellitier, U Michigan - Ectomycorrhizal access to organic N enhances plant growth response to rising [CO₂]

You - Elevator Speech Workshop

Anna Trugman, UC Santa Barbara - Trait velocities: A story of community hydraulic trait composition, forest demographic rates, and climate

Victor Leshyk, N. Arizona University - ACCURATE PASSION: Fine Art in the Service of Science

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, UC Merced - Digging deeper: persistence and climate sensitivity of deep soil organic matter

Sasha Reed, USGS - Hurricanes and heat: Results from a Puerto Rico tropical forest warming experiment

Kristen DeAngelis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Drivers and mechanisms of long-term soil adaptation to warming

Alastair Potts, Nelson Mandela University - Tracking subtropical thickets through space and time: the oldest plant communities in Africa?

Poetry (TBD)

Cristina Portales Reyes, University of Minnesota - Fire promotes the recovery of biodiversity following nutrient enrichment

Winslow Hansen, Columbia University - Global hotspots of forest tolerance and sensitivity to climate variability

Beatriz Aguirre, Cal State Los Angeles - Experimental manipulation of atmospheric drought: Teasing out the role of microclimate in biodiversity experiments

Alejandro Salazar, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt - Awakening a dormant "giant": warming induced activation of dormant microbes and consequences for soil carbon emissions