Are you going to be at #ESA2026 in #SaltLakeCity this week? Are you interested in grassland fire? Come join a Special Session on Grassland Wildfire at the WUI (and beyond!), co-organized by @hennhouse.bsky.social and I! Session is Thursday, July 30 at 11:45 AM (events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...).

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 A functional trait perspective on restored temperate #grassland responses to changing winter insulation & managed disturbance by fire By Katherine Charton et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

🌱🔥 Grassland fires are becoming more frequent and more dangerous across the country. Ecologist Katharine Suding has spent her career understanding the ecosystems that produce them. She shares insights in a Q&A www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Rainy spring may be bad news for fire season. Here’s what you can do about it

Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.

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Our article on "Marine-derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities" is finally out 🐧🦆🌱🌾💩🌊🏔️: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Marine‐derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.

Jon Henn@hennhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

Our department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

Hi! 👋 We are scientists studying Earth & environmental systems at CU Boulder. Our name = cold/high places, but these days we work from tropics to poles, incl. the world ocean. Follow us for 🧊 Cold regions ⌛ Past climate 🏔️ Earth surface processes 💨 Atmospheric gases 🌱 Ecological change & lots more!

Thank you! It's been a pleasure working in INSTAAR the last few years!

INSTAAR@instaar.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏆 Congrats again to JONATHAN HENN @hennhouse.bsky.social for winning a CU Boulder RIO 'outstanding postdoc of the year' award! Lots of competition & only 2 recipients! Advised by K. Suding & @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social ➡️ Read our recent conversation with Jon www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

Excited to share our new paper - plant metabolomics provide an additional trait dimension in community assembly to better understand how niche selection changes along environmental gradients. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A collaborative project led by @hennhouse.bsky.social

Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities

Studies of community assembly often explore the role of niche selection in limiting the diversity of functional traits (underdispersion) or increasing the diversity of functional traits (overdispersi....

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Excited to share our new synthesis of global change experiments from the Niwot LTER onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We had a great team and great leadership from Jon Henn!

Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits

Predicting the effects of global change on plant species and communities is a critical challenge as global change drivers accelerate and intensify. We used functional traits to determine whether ther...

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We have a LOT of opportunities for undergraduate student researchers this summer and beyond. Application review is starting! See top three blog posts for details and how to apply: damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu