John L Field
@johnlfield.bsky.social
Researching bioenergy, soil carbon & land-based mitigation. NCA5 author, Colorado State U. Natural Resource Ecology Lab alum. he/him
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John L Field
@johnlfield.bsky.social
· Sep 2
Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...
doi.org
New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.
January 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
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Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov
January 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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We could get rid of half of the radiative forcing of climate caused by aviation if we could get airlines to stop making contrails, mostly by flying a few thousand feet higher or lower.
New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
A Stylized Study of the Climate Response to Longwave and Shortwave Forcing at the Altitude of Aviation‐Induced Cirrus
For the same magnitude of LW and SW forcing at the altitude of aviation-induced cirrus, climate sensitivity is larger when the forcing is imposed at high latitudes For the same change in concentr...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We could get rid of half of the radiative forcing of climate caused by aviation if we could get airlines to stop making contrails, mostly by flying a few thousand feet higher or lower.
New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...
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Excellent, well-informed new podcast! Like a ship entering a storm, we’re now entering the overshoot - a world above 1.5 degrees C #globalwarming. This requires a whole new mindset,
explored by Laurie Laybourn.
explored by Laurie Laybourn.
Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory
If the world didn’t win, has it lost?
We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next
Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...
If the world didn’t win, has it lost?
We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next
Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...
PART 1: Uncharted Territory
open.spotify.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Excellent, well-informed new podcast! Like a ship entering a storm, we’re now entering the overshoot - a world above 1.5 degrees C #globalwarming. This requires a whole new mindset,
explored by Laurie Laybourn.
explored by Laurie Laybourn.
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
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Yessss new paper is OUT! Scott Ferrenberg led this effort to tease apart "nurse plant" effects in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems
@scottferrenberg.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eH1O8
Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems
@scottferrenberg.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eH1O8
Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the ‘nurse plant effect’ in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert
rdcu.be
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Yessss new paper is OUT! Scott Ferrenberg led this effort to tease apart "nurse plant" effects in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems
@scottferrenberg.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eH1O8
Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems
@scottferrenberg.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eH1O8
New paper out in Biofpr: "Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa
When selecting economically and environmentally advantageous genotypes for domestication in a biofuel supply chain, variability of cell-wall composition within a feedstock population and its impact o....
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New paper out in Biofpr: "Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard!
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard!
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New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1
September 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1
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Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
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September 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
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New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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This will end the Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) program (schools with >25% Latino undergrads). For reference, current flagships that are HSIs include Arizona and Arizona State, 5 UCs (Irvine, Riverside, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Rutgers, U New Mexico & NM State, UT Austin & UT El Paso
Trump Aims to End Millions in Grants to Colleges With High Hispanic Populations
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Gift link! wapo.st/4oTVanO (Yes, WaPo will ask for an email address.)
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Gift link! wapo.st/4oTVanO (Yes, WaPo will ask for an email address.)
August 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This will end the Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) program (schools with >25% Latino undergrads). For reference, current flagships that are HSIs include Arizona and Arizona State, 5 UCs (Irvine, Riverside, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Rutgers, U New Mexico & NM State, UT Austin & UT El Paso
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Enjoying the cool weather in Baltimore this week for #ESA2025. Come hear about the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats that my colleagues and I have been documenting this Thursday at 8:45am (COS 128 - Behavior: Migration and Movement 1). Please don't be afraid to say hi!
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Enjoying the cool weather in Baltimore this week for #ESA2025. Come hear about the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats that my colleagues and I have been documenting this Thursday at 8:45am (COS 128 - Behavior: Migration and Movement 1). Please don't be afraid to say hi!
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Also if you're at #ESA2025 and interested in bats (maybe birds too), bioacoustics, arid landscapes, and thinking of a PhD, please say hello. I plan to recruit 1-2 grad students. Spring or fall 2026 start with a focus on desert waters or renewable energy. lavertylab.org
Happy to meet up!
Happy to meet up!
The Laverty Lab
A conservation science and wildlife ecology lab at NMSU
lavertylab.org
August 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Also if you're at #ESA2025 and interested in bats (maybe birds too), bioacoustics, arid landscapes, and thinking of a PhD, please say hello. I plan to recruit 1-2 grad students. Spring or fall 2026 start with a focus on desert waters or renewable energy. lavertylab.org
Happy to meet up!
Happy to meet up!
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NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
NASA Planning for Unauthorized Shutdown of Carbon Monitoring Satellites - Eos
Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellites missions s...
eos.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...