Forest chores in Ecosystem Ecology and Global Change:

Black Rock wildlife:





We embrace both important elements,
Nitrogen and Mitrogen:

Red fox in the Brooks Range:

Vanessa elbow deep in tundra:

Musk ox herd at 69 deg. N:

Alder nodules at treeline in Northern Alaska:

Vanessa, Duncan, Shahid, and Kevin heading to Toolik:

Ayanna sampling streams in Puerto Rico:

Ayanna in the lab in Puerto Rico:

Most of the lab group in spring 2022:

The lab group in spring 2022, mostly in the same place:

A lab group meeting during March 2020:

Unloading roots in Manhattan:

The belowground team celebrates:

Class weighing aboveground biomass:

Aria pioneers a new protocol:







Palani sneaks a soil slider:

(He followed it with a shot of boot juice)

"Should I let the scientists live?"







Puerto Rico field work:

Andrew cores:

Ben brings shame upon the lab:

Sian is a fan of Volcano:

Hawaii's a rough place to work:

The nene are concerned about greenhouse gas fluxes:

This seemed more repeatable than having Palani stand on Amy:

Alex measuring NO gas in Tanguro ... or is she?

Alex tells the calcium carbide how it is:

Tom, clearly doing science:

October Black Rock field work:

Sian loves sampling gas:

Andrés and Rachel measuring Robinia height:

Rachel's audition shot for Ghostbusters:

Gas sampling at Black Rock:


Pentaclethra nodules:

Ben, happy that his plants were alive so he could kill them:

Richard, one with local fauna:

Amy hard at work:

Ben and Richard hard at work:

Some nice Waiakea dirt:

Rachel fertilizing greenhouse plants:

Setting up the Black Rock site for the N fixation strategies project:





Black Rock 2013-2014:




     Ben measures Taylor's bh.                          Nodules!