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What's new in our lab?
September, 18, 2009, Congratulations to Wenwen Wang, who successfully advanced to candidacy.
September 11, 2009 - Congratulations to Liza Litvak, who successfully advanced to candidacy.
August 30, 2009 - Wenwen Wang's paper "Spatial patterns of plant isotope tracers in the Los Angeles urban region" has been published online in Landscape Ecology.
August 26, 2009 - We have received a new grant from NSF to study the biogeography of urban forests in Los Angeles.
August 10, 2009- Congratulations to Amy Townsend-Small, who received an instrumentation grant from NSF to automate her measurements of the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide.
July 17, 2009 - Amy Townsend-Small was quoted in New Scientist magazine.
July 6, 2009 - Congratulations to Neeta Bijoor, who won the department student paper award for her paper in Global Change Biology.
June 5, 2009 - Christine Goedhart's paper "Seasonal variations in plant nitrogen relations and photosynthesis along a grassland to shrubland gradient in Owens Valley, California" has been published online in the journal Plant and Soil.
February 6, 2009 - Congratulations to Liza Litvak, who was awarded a scholarship from the Women's Environmental Council
November 13, 2008 - Our paper "An integrated approach to improving fossil fuel emissions scenarios with urban ecosystem studies" has been published online in Urban Ecosystems
October 21, 2008 - Our work was highlighted in the Orange County Register and Natural History magazine.
September 5, 2008 - Congratulations to Sonja Djuricin, who successfully advanced to candidacy
August 7, 2008 - Neeta Bijoor's Global Change Biology paper was highlighted by the journal Nature
June 23, 2008 - Welcome to our summer undergraduate researchers, Melissa Benitez and Thomas Gocke of UC Irvine, Matt Ampleman of Washington University and Fabian Magana of Santa Ana college. Melissa and Matt are working on a joint project on turfgrass biogeochemistry between our lab and the Trumbore lab.
May 8, 2008 - Our paper "Water sources and nitrogen relations of grasses and shrubs in phreatophytic communities of the Great Basin Desert" has been published online in the Journal of Arid Environments
Apr. 9, 2008 - Neeta Bijoor's paper "The effects of temperature and fertilization on nitrogen cycling and community composition of an urban lawn" has been published online in Global Change Biology
Mar. 10, 2008 - We have set up a new round of study sites for monitoring tree water relations and physiology in the Los Angeles Basin. Many thanks to the Los Angeles County Arboretum and the Los Angeles Police Academy and Athletic Club for access to their property.
Dec. 21, 2007 - Congratulations to Christine Goedhart, who successfully advanced to candidacy.
Feb. 5, 2008 - Nicole Ngo's undergraduate thesis "The energy and mass balance of Los Angeles County" has been published as a paper in the journal Urban Ecosystems
Nov. 29, 2007 - Congratulations to Neeta Bijoor, who successfully advanced to candidacy.
Sept. 24, 2007 - Congratulations to Christine Goedhart, who received a fellowship from the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.
Sept. 10, 2007 - Welcome to our new students Wenwen Wang, formerly of SUNY Binghamton, and Elizaveta Litvak, formerly of Moscow State University. Wenwen will join the Ph.D. program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Elizaveta will join the Ph.D. program in Earth System Science.
July 30, 2007 - We joined Nathan Phillips and his student Heidi Renninger of Boston University for their study of the hydraulic architecture of palm trees at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Nathan's visit will give us the opportunity to compare palm physiology to our studies of other urban forest tree species Los Angeles. And it gave us an excuse to take a lab field trip to Disneyland!
June 26, 2007 - Welcome to Justine Law, a visiting REU student from Allegheny College. Justine will work on an 8 week summer project measuring stomatal conductance of native and non-native plants in a variety of urban landscapes.
April 18, 2007 - Congratulations to Christine Goedhart, who received a graduate student research grant to conduct her project "Linking plant water relations, nitrogen cycling, and woody encroachment in Owens Valley, California" at the White Mountain Research Station.
