Alison Munson
@munsonalison.bsky.social
Ecologist (forest and urban); exploring plant traits and soil carbon stabilization. Mother of Camille. Prof (retired sort of) @universitelaval. Writer. No DMs =block= do you read?
Thank you to Anne Ola from INRS, Olivier Villemaire-Côté, Isabelle Aubin, Centre de foresterie des grands lacs, Juan M. Posada, Rosario University, Bill Shipley, Université de Sherbrooke, Martine Lapointe and Gilles Raoul Lontsi Meli for their support.
June 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you to Anne Ola from INRS, Olivier Villemaire-Côté, Isabelle Aubin, Centre de foresterie des grands lacs, Juan M. Posada, Rosario University, Bill Shipley, Université de Sherbrooke, Martine Lapointe and Gilles Raoul Lontsi Meli for their support.
After a busy week of classes and several social activities, we end the week in rain gear in the field to sample the roots of trees at the arboretum of Lotbinière. Thanks to Guillaume Otis Prud'homme and his team from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (MRNF) for preparing the site.
June 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
After a busy week of classes and several social activities, we end the week in rain gear in the field to sample the roots of trees at the arboretum of Lotbinière. Thanks to Guillaume Otis Prud'homme and his team from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (MRNF) for preparing the site.
Really an amazing and enthusiastic group of students and professors (41 students) for the 10th International Summer School of traits, at Laval University - Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, the week of June 15-20. #traits
#functionaltraits 🧪🌎
#functionaltraits 🧪🌎
June 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Really an amazing and enthusiastic group of students and professors (41 students) for the 10th International Summer School of traits, at Laval University - Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, the week of June 15-20. #traits
#functionaltraits 🧪🌎
#functionaltraits 🧪🌎
10th International Traits summer school in Quebec, Canada, 15-20 June 2025. This 10th anniversary edition coincides with a synthesis workshop (announcement to come). MSc, PhD, postdoc, send CV and letter to alison.munson@sbf.ulaval.ca before March 11th.
🧮➕📏 🌎🧪🌾 #traits #FunctionalTraits
🧮➕📏 🌎🧪🌾 #traits #FunctionalTraits
January 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
10th International Traits summer school in Quebec, Canada, 15-20 June 2025. This 10th anniversary edition coincides with a synthesis workshop (announcement to come). MSc, PhD, postdoc, send CV and letter to alison.munson@sbf.ulaval.ca before March 11th.
🧮➕📏 🌎🧪🌾 #traits #FunctionalTraits
🧮➕📏 🌎🧪🌾 #traits #FunctionalTraits
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5 / 20 ....behind
5 / 20 ....behind
December 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5 / 20 ....behind
5 / 20 ....behind
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
December 16, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Alison Munson @munsonalison.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 14, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Alison Munson @munsonalison.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
December 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
A Friday before reading week, a day after our «formal» retirement party @universitelaval, on my way to PEPS for a workout, grateful for the people I've met here, many good days of work + play, the grand elms in all seasons. Mostly students, how they have kept me alive, literally.
March 2, 2024 at 9:23 PM
A Friday before reading week, a day after our «formal» retirement party @universitelaval, on my way to PEPS for a workout, grateful for the people I've met here, many good days of work + play, the grand elms in all seasons. Mostly students, how they have kept me alive, literally.
End of fall feeling, gray sky, last leaves plunging, a skin of snow lasting into evening.
November 19, 2023 at 11:25 PM
End of fall feeling, gray sky, last leaves plunging, a skin of snow lasting into evening.
With P Marquardt, B Palik, and P Nolet I am guest editing a special issue on forest assisted migration, in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. For instructions, see here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... Deadline for title and abstract is Nov 15th.
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November 1, 2023 at 2:53 PM
With P Marquardt, B Palik, and P Nolet I am guest editing a special issue on forest assisted migration, in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. For instructions, see here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... Deadline for title and abstract is Nov 15th.
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I leave the plants overwinter such as the milkweed here, to maximize return of seeds to the soil, and then cut early in the spring (for university aesthetic reasons...). This also leaves seeds around all fall for birds foraging. And a great dense cover for invertebrates.
October 20, 2023 at 7:41 PM
I leave the plants overwinter such as the milkweed here, to maximize return of seeds to the soil, and then cut early in the spring (for university aesthetic reasons...). This also leaves seeds around all fall for birds foraging. And a great dense cover for invertebrates.
There is still colour in our campus prairie these days, but it is fading quickly. We will be sampling the soil to see if there is some accumulation of soil carbon after 5 years, compared to the cut grass around. With all the precipitation this summer I have never seen the plants so high. 🌏
October 20, 2023 at 7:32 PM
There is still colour in our campus prairie these days, but it is fading quickly. We will be sampling the soil to see if there is some accumulation of soil carbon after 5 years, compared to the cut grass around. With all the precipitation this summer I have never seen the plants so high. 🌏
32 yrs is a long time to work for the same institution. My legacy is my students, many who are professors, researchers, talented people contributing to science and society in many different ways. I am so proud of all of them.
Many emotions as I box up this space.
Many emotions as I box up this space.
October 12, 2023 at 2:58 PM
32 yrs is a long time to work for the same institution. My legacy is my students, many who are professors, researchers, talented people contributing to science and society in many different ways. I am so proud of all of them.
Many emotions as I box up this space.
Many emotions as I box up this space.
Last day in my office as prof at ULaval. I will miss this lovely view, and especially fall, when the elms are startlingly yellow. Bulletin boards have shed accumulated photos, postcards from students, artwork of my daughter, and the academic timetable for the yr. My timetable is almost my own now.
October 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Last day in my office as prof at ULaval. I will miss this lovely view, and especially fall, when the elms are startlingly yellow. Bulletin boards have shed accumulated photos, postcards from students, artwork of my daughter, and the academic timetable for the yr. My timetable is almost my own now.
This is what a lawn can be if you do some work with indigenous plants. Included here are vetch, milkweed, goldenrod, rudbekia and a little planted phlox.
August 26, 2023 at 9:50 AM
This is what a lawn can be if you do some work with indigenous plants. Included here are vetch, milkweed, goldenrod, rudbekia and a little planted phlox.
Caturday is early this week. Mango is helping us pack as per ususal, with the instinct that something is up. Yes, that something is a holiday to celebrate retirement, in one of our favorite places. Combining the end of academia with pleasure and alot of social meetups, in warm places.
August 15, 2023 at 1:33 AM
Caturday is early this week. Mango is helping us pack as per ususal, with the instinct that something is up. Yes, that something is a holiday to celebrate retirement, in one of our favorite places. Combining the end of academia with pleasure and alot of social meetups, in warm places.
I also write fiction and non, on the side, but reaching retirement this fall means I will spend more time on this essential work in my life. So I follow writers, philosophers, gardeners, scientists, artists, all feeding into writing. My daughter is also a writer and poet, my husband a scientist.
July 28, 2023 at 5:07 PM
I also write fiction and non, on the side, but reaching retirement this fall means I will spend more time on this essential work in my life. So I follow writers, philosophers, gardeners, scientists, artists, all feeding into writing. My daughter is also a writer and poet, my husband a scientist.
I'm slowly working my way over to bluesky as it is getting harder to tolerate X, and this seems a nice alternative. I'm a forest ecologist working on soil / plant relations, plant traits, mostly in urban ecology at the moment, so posts and photos about greening in cities, both trees and prairies.
July 28, 2023 at 4:56 PM
I'm slowly working my way over to bluesky as it is getting harder to tolerate X, and this seems a nice alternative. I'm a forest ecologist working on soil / plant relations, plant traits, mostly in urban ecology at the moment, so posts and photos about greening in cities, both trees and prairies.