Chris updates
Last week settled on a time for April visit; Max, Jeff, Chris will go 7th-12th to mark trees, meet with sawyers, perhaps recover met equipment. Max will take first round of DBH measurements
Vogel swears sawyers are good, but not great communicators
Week of May 13th - arrival for measurements
Week of May 20th - girdling
First REU - Carly Rodriguez(?) - will be thinking about how she’ll plug into project. Probably focused on belowground processes
Physiological measurements - question for Alexey. Can’t measure upper-canopy processes very easily outside that single road-accessible replicate, but what else? Kayla Dahlin also interested. So, what other canopy sampling would we like to do/would be most valuable?
Alexey: From ED perspective, biggest uncertainties are around white pine (but this isn’t super present at site); related to belowground processes; and ecological processes like seedling mortality.
A: If we ignore ED and focus on spectra/traits, look at what drives INTRA-specific variability; how much is within individual versus between individual of same species? A general plant trait ecology paper could be possible here.
C: talked to Inez Ibañez last week, she’s very interested.
Ben: What about SLA? Easy to measure, valuable, …
A continues to fail at his trait paper :) but there may be good lessons to take from it–SLA/LMA may be a good surrogate for lots of things
Jeff: this might be a good REU project
A: how representative are top-of-canopy (thinking of Kyla’s AOP) measurements of complete canopy? Getting msmts with height would be invaluable. Could be high profile remote sensing paper!
C: we’ll want to bring Kyla into the conversation at some point. Her crew will be making measurements this summer
[technical discussion about instruments]
Jeff’s updates
C and J ran ‘average plot’ analysis of total number of trees will be girdled (= 3600, about ½ the number of FASET)
Bottom-up treatment at low severity ends up killing 3x as many trees; high severity, 2x as many trees as top-down
Two interviews!
Alexey’s updates
EFI 2019 conference abstract submitted. Thanks to Chris and Ben for your feedback!
Also going to International Assn of Landscape Ecologists in Fort Collins in April
Tested out ED2 “switches” (different submodels) with short (~3 month) runs. So far, almost all of them run, which is encouraging. This week, I’ll be trying longer (~10-20 year) runs.
Ben’s updates
Stephanie available and interested to help in May; think about this. Perhaps Chris, Ben, Stephanie, and Kayla schedule a call?
FoRTE data package - Jeff will take a look at GitHub comments
Max’s first round of data - might be a good test case?
Would we want to high-res GPS on the nested subplots? Not for now; might be useful in the future for e.g. Inez’s work or Kyla’s AOP. Don’t do right now–can always be done later.
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Chris updates Last week settled on a time for April visit; Max, Jeff, Chris will go 7th-12th to mark trees, meet with sawyers, perhaps recover met equipment. Max will take first round of DBH measurements Vogel swears sawyers are good, but not great communicators Week of May 13th - arrival for measurements Week of May 20th - girdling First REU - Carly Rodriguez(?) - will be thinking about how she’ll plug into project. Probably focused on belowground processes Physiological measurements - question for Alexey. Can’t measure upper-canopy processes very easily outside that single road-accessible replicate, but what else? Kayla Dahlin also interested. So, what other canopy sampling would we like to do/would be most valuable? Alexey: From ED perspective, biggest uncertainties are around white pine (but this isn’t super present at site); related to belowground processes; and ecological processes like seedling mortality. A: If we ignore ED and focus on spectra/traits, look at what drives INTRA-specific variability; how much is within individual versus between individual of same species? A general plant trait ecology paper could be possible here. C: talked to Inez Ibañez last week, she’s very interested. Ben: What about SLA? Easy to measure, valuable, … A continues to fail at his trait paper :) but there may be good lessons to take from it–SLA/LMA may be a good surrogate for lots of things Jeff: this might be a good REU project A: how representative are top-of-canopy (thinking of Kyla’s AOP) measurements of complete canopy? Getting msmts with height would be invaluable. Could be high profile remote sensing paper! C: we’ll want to bring Kyla into the conversation at some point. Her crew will be making measurements this summer [technical discussion about instruments]
Jeff’s updates C and J ran ‘average plot’ analysis of total number of trees will be girdled (= 3600, about ½ the number of FASET) Bottom-up treatment at low severity ends up killing 3x as many trees; high severity, 2x as many trees as top-down Two interviews!
Alexey’s updates EFI 2019 conference abstract submitted. Thanks to Chris and Ben for your feedback! Also going to International Assn of Landscape Ecologists in Fort Collins in April Tested out ED2 “switches” (different submodels) with short (~3 month) runs. So far, almost all of them run, which is encouraging. This week, I’ll be trying longer (~10-20 year) runs.
Ben’s updates Stephanie available and interested to help in May; think about this. Perhaps Chris, Ben, Stephanie, and Kayla schedule a call? FoRTE data package - Jeff will take a look at GitHub comments Max’s first round of data - might be a good test case? Would we want to high-res GPS on the nested subplots? Not for now; might be useful in the future for e.g. Inez’s work or Kyla’s AOP. Don’t do right now–can always be done later.