News

Welcome Cat and Allie to the lab!

Excited to receive a student nominated award for my Canvas site!

Congratulations to Monica, Nate, and Nicole on graduating! Also congrats to Nicole for completing the honors program!

Lab retreat at St. Croix State Park!

Great time at the Botanical Society of America conference with all or UMD friends.

We welcomed Nicole, Caleb and Monica to the lab.

Fun summer BBQ at the Ray's. 

Lots of fun with the LICOR6800!

Lab retreat at St. Croix State Park!

Kudos to go around: Becca defended her thesis and got a job, Dustin got a USDA AFRI postdoc fellowship, Jessica got a Jewett Award to start a project at the Arnold Arboretum, and Mady & graduated!

Jessica is now the Chair of the Physiology and Ecophysiology Setion of BSA. Check our our Bluesky & X accounts under @BSA_ecophys

Jessica in on sabbatical for 2023-2024!

Excited that Amelie LeTierce and Annie Peterson are joining the lab in the fall as master's students.

Lots of fun with a game night, roller skating and lab cleaning.

Gavin did a great job presenting his UROP research at the symposium & Dustin gave a fantastic seminar at UMD.

Noel, Gavin, Mady and Anna have all joined our lab team for the year.

Dustin Ray received the USDA AFRI postdoc fellowship!

Gavin got awarded a UROP to work on local adaptation in seedlings!

Wishing Lexie Wear and Jasmine Baerg all the best as they graduate!

Our paper on the relationship between wood anatomy and leaf phenology is now published with a great commentary by Mark Olson.

Our community-engaged science program is on the front cover of the Duluth Tribune and was covered by several other media outlets (WDIO, CBS3, FOX21)  including The North 103.3.

Dustin Ray got a Sinnott Award from the Arnold Arboretum for a project on petioles this summer!

Lots of phenology walks with Native Plant Explorers and at Boulder Lake.

Elise and Danielle successfully defended their masters theses!

Britton received T. O. Odlaug Outstanding Senior Award!

A lab alumnus, Sydney Hudzinski talking about being and arborist and planning all women training events with Davey Tree. 

Natalie's paper on floral hydraulics is published.

Lexie got awarded a UROP to work on floral freezing tolerance!

Becca Rooney joined our lab team in the fall.

Elise Miller got awarded a GRFP from NSF and BSA Graduate Student Research Award!!!

Our Tansley review is published and review on seasonality in phloem.

Natalie's paper on floral hydraulics is published.

Becca Rooney joined our lab team this fall!

Lots of publicity about phenology, citizen science and fall foliage. Duluth News Tribune, CH.9, Ch. 10, KAXE, KUMD, Star Tribune

Check out our abstracts  for BSA 2021 on seedling phloem, phloem histology, phloem phenology, floral freezing and wood/leaf phenology.

Amber was awarded a UROP and Britton got a BURST.

Excited to host and participate in IonE sustainability panels.

Congrats to Andrew and Amber who are graduating.

First graduate paper published from team!!!! Great job Erin. Read her work about extended leaf phenology in invasive species. 

Three new papers on (1) phloem phenology, (2) cell wall pectins in sieve elements, and (3) phloem scaling. 

Elise Miller joined our lab as a Master's student.

I received a NSF CAREER award. Read about the highlights. 

We welcomed Andrew, Arthur, Margaret Martin, Britton Vandenheuvel and Phang Chia Lee to our lab team.

Fun article on pumpkins!

We have a chapter in a new book, Phloem: Methods and Protocols on measuring sap flow rate in the phloem.

We published paper in AJB on precocious flowering plants! Check out our cover photo and SCSE highlight.

We are launched our citizen science phenology program Nature's Timekeepers.

Erin O'Connell defended her thesis!

We welcomed Dustin Ray (@dustinmray) and Danielle Lake Diver to our lab team.

Dr. Savage was highlighted in Kare 11 News broadcast when her class was out on Lake Superior. 

Enjoyed visiting Rebecca Montgomery and talking to Daisy girl scouts!

We had a great time hosting Dan Cariveau.

We started a Common garden at the farm.

Natalie McMann defended her thesis and gave a wonderful department seminar!

We received an ASPB BLOOME award to support the development of a citizen science project, Nature's Timekeepers.

A few new publications out with collaborators on the hydraulic impact of adelgids on hemlock and willow microbial community structure.

Congratulations to Natalie for winning the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award this year and defending her thesis!

Rishika got UROPs for the fall, Alex got the BURST for the summer. We welcomed Shauna Blake and Nihaar Joshi to our lab!

I enjoyed hosting Craig Brodersen for department seminar and talking to his class about giant pumpkins.

This is great year for funding, I got a NSF grant from IOS and a Sinnott Award, Natalie got a The Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship in Horticulture and Rishika got a BURST fellowship.

We published a in Nature Plants, which had an associated News and Views article.  It got covered by Channel 10 news and perfectduluthday. We also had paper on willow species distributions.

I went to an amazing meeting in Copenhagen on phloem and a fantastic workshop on floral evolution organized by Adam Roddy and hosted by the Oak Spring Foundation. 

I gave a talk at keynote talk the Minnesota Phenology Network meeting. Check out the coverage in the Star Tribune.