The Garnas Lab wrapped up a busy September! Here are some highlights:
Liz recently chatted with a 9th grade honors biology class about termites and beetles. She connected with the class via Skype a Scientist–the students were in New Jersey! The students read one of her papers and were very excited to ask about both the paper and her career as a woman in STEM studying insects.
Caroline participated in the First US-Spanish Summer School on Climate Change and Ecosystem Management, hosted in Aguilar de Campoo, Spain. The summer school featured lectures from experts, presentations from graduate students and postdocs, field trips to local forests, and project work. Participants are now working on writing a literature review together. Caroline notes “It was fun to travel internationally for science! I met really amazing people and learned a lot about the forests in Spain. Now I have some new inspiration for future lectures in Forest Health, particularly about forest resilience.” Caroline also wants to give a special shout out to Erin and Liz for lecturing in her Forest Health class while she was traveling: Erin taught the students all about beech bark disease, and Liz shared the intricacies of termite warfare and then moved on to emerald ash borer and parasitism.
From the field, we have some updates coming soon from Casey and Mariah and the Ash Protection Experiment (APE) at Hubbard Brook. Stay tuned!
