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PARCHED - PAnama Rainforest CHanges with Experimental Drying is a rainfall reduction experiment in 4 lowland forests in Panama! https://youtu.be/oDm2SKWHw78
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www.earth.com/news/tropica... Nice new story on our research in @parched-panama.bsky.social
Tropical trees are growing deeper roots to survive droughts
Trees lost many surface roots in drought but grew more deep roots that reached wetter soil. Fungal partners helped roots take up water.
www.earth.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Nice coverage from CSU Source news hub on our recent @parched-panama.bsky.social study!
warnercnr.source.colostate.edu/tropical-for...
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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New research from my group @parched-panama.bsky.social showing that rainforest drying suppresses root growth and biomass in surface soils, while stimulating deep root production! Let us know what you think!
doi.org/10.1111%2Fnp...
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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New paper from @parched-panama.bsky.social on climate history effects on microbial responses to stress! Differences in similar microbes from Panama vs. Colorado. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
N Bouskill, S Chacon @daniela-cusack.bsky.social L Dietterich, L Chen, A Khurram, J Voriskova, H Holman
May 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hooray to recent @parched-panama.bsky.social grad student Amanda Cordeiro on getting out this huge new synthesis on tropical roots, with a focus on responses to drought!
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Brunch party to wrap a great @parched-panama.bsky.social research semester with my team at CSU! Processed 192 Panama root biomass samples and another 200+ soil samples!
May 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Congrats to CSU MS student Grace McLaughlin for receiving a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellowship for her research on @parched-panama.bsky.social rainforest drying effects on soil microbes!
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Bravo to our stellar undergad @parched-panama.bsky.social root researchers at Colorado State University ES&S! Maya McCain, Ally Lewis, and Hailey Tharpe have been crushing it all semester!
April 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Submit an abstract about your tropical research and come present in Oaxaca! The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) abstract deadline is Friday!
www.atbc2025.org/call-abstracts
Call for Abstracts | ATBC2025
www.atbc2025.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Go @parched-panama.bsky.social dry season 2025 field team! Olivia Aaron, Eric Valdes, Grace McLaughlin and Katie Nelson collecting soils, roots, and trace gases!
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Today is the deadline for #ESA2025 contributed abstracts! I could definitely use some good time with a giant group of ecologists right about now. If you can, please come meet me in Baltimore and let's chat forests, soils, global change, or anything else ecology-related!
esa.org/baltimore202...
Call for Contributed Abstracts  – 2025 Annual MeetingTop of Page
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February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
February 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Great leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!
February 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Well this is bad. I guess I'll still submit my NSF proposal this week?
White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Thrilled to see this 2-volume book published on "100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Sci." - A monument to tropical forests, led by H Muller-Landau & SJ Wright!
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social @parched-panama.bsky.social

smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
November 23, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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Go Alex! a beloved part of the @parched-panama.bsky.social team!
daniela-cusack.bsky.social Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · Nov 20
Alex Hedgpeth dissertation defense at UCLA Geography happening now!
ucla.zoom.us/j/9736647097...
November 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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@parched-panama.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Happy to be here - check out our work on drying effects on tropical forests in Panama with @daniela7cusack.bsky.social @karis-mcfarlane.bsky.social @bsulman.bsky.social and many others!
November 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM