{"id":330,"date":"2023-10-16T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/?p=330"},"modified":"2023-10-16T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:00:48","slug":"september-lab-member-highlights-skype-a-scientist-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/2023\/10\/16\/september-lab-member-highlights-skype-a-scientist-and-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"September lab member highlights: Skype-a-Scientist, and Spain!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Garnas Lab wrapped up a busy September!\u00a0Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/liz-clifton\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"247\">Liz<\/a> recently chatted with a 9th grade honors biology class about termites and beetles. She connected with the class via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skypeascientist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype a Scientist<\/a>&#8211;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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/caroline-kanaskie\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"71\">Caroline<\/a> participated in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eventos.uva.es\/100840\/detail\/first-us-spanish-summer-school-on-climate-change-and-ecosystem-management.html\" target=\"_blank\">First US-Spanish Summer School on Climate Change and Ecosystem Management<\/a>, 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 &#8220;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.&#8221; Caroline also wants to give a special shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/erin-reilly\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"79\">Erin<\/a> 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the field, we have some updates coming soon from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/casey_c\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"319\">Casey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/mariah_r\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"313\">Mariah<\/a> and the Ash Protection Experiment (APE) at Hubbard Brook. Stay tuned! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/10\/IMG_6656.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The US-Spanish Summer School took place in a small village in Spain. This is the view from the ruins of a castle, overlooking the village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/10\/IMG_6564.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Caroline saw a lot of oak-pine forest in Spain. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garnas Lab wrapped up a busy September!\u00a0Here 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&#8211;the students were in New Jersey! The students read one of her papers and were very excited to ask about both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/garnaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}