Made a new friend in the field.

No Kings rally Sapelo Island GA.

With Megan Vahsen and collaborators on Sapelo Island collecting cores. The goal is to resurrect ancient seeds from the cores and see how the plants have evolved over time.

Happy to get a visit from a past student (class of 2010) who is now working as a physician's assistant in intensive care. The kids are alright!

Pennings lab was thrilled recently to have a visit from my past PhD student, Chuan Kai Ho, now a Professor and Director in Taiwan, and two of his graduate students.

Surveying mangroves near Port Aransas Texas. Four and a half years after winter storm Uri, which killed most of the mangroves, most of the intertidal remains an unvegetated mudflat.

The GCE implementation of the global DRAGNET disturbance experiment shows little recovery in tilled plots almost two years after the last disturbance. Tilled plots have subsided a couple cm and are a pretty hostile environment for plant growth.

Congratulations to Celine Saidy, who won one of the prizes for her poster presentation on long-term change in salt marsh plant height at the UH Ecology and Evolution symposium.

Alligator pond with egrets.

New approach at the FBI

The media is doing a poor job reporting the news that alcohol increases your risk of cancer. The key fact about all alcohol-related health risks is that they are a function of how much you drink.

If you know any early career faculty who would increase diversity at the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER, please encourage them to apply.

Best wishes for the holidays from the University of Houston Coastal center. Hope you get some time outside in December.

As part of the annual conference for the Texas Society for Ecological Restoration in November, ~40 attendees from across Texas toured the prairie restorations at the UH Coastal Center. Afterwards, students from the University of North Texas got their hands dirty and helped control tallow.

The GCE LTER is looking to engage with Assistant Professors underrepresented in STEM. Come work with us!

Community ecologist studying salt marshes. Motivated by a geeky desire to understand how things work.