Parker Bausman
@parkerbausman.bsky.social
he/him
PhD Student, University of Alabama
M.S., University of Maine
Community ecology, macroinvertebrates, drought, fly fishing
PhD Student, University of Alabama
M.S., University of Maine
Community ecology, macroinvertebrates, drought, fly fishing
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How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought
We asked how vulnerable riparian trees are to droughts, examining their water use and growing season timing and duration via groundwater data and satellite imagery. Drought shortened the growing seas...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beautiful start to the PhD fieldwork in Iceland
June 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Beautiful start to the PhD fieldwork in Iceland
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It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
March 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...
USDA halts funding for University of Maine programs
The temporary spending pause comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut all of Maine's federal funding following an altercation with Gov. Janet Mills over allowing transgender athl...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...
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and- academics love to tout that supporting science communicators is soo important and yeah most people don’t have the funds to commission an illustrator, but you know what you DO have the funds for? Not using AI art.
January 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
and- academics love to tout that supporting science communicators is soo important and yeah most people don’t have the funds to commission an illustrator, but you know what you DO have the funds for? Not using AI art.
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I want to be so clear here: using AI art during talks does not make them look better, it makes them look lazier.
January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I want to be so clear here: using AI art during talks does not make them look better, it makes them look lazier.
Thesis successfully defended!
December 10, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Thesis successfully defended!
Defending my masters thesis this week!
December 1, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Defending my masters thesis this week!