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Marielle’s Blog Archive
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Tapajós 2012: Introduction to the Amazon Phenology Campaign
Posted on November 15, 2012 | 4 CommentsWhat is the fate of the Amazon under climate change? This is what we’re here in the Brazilian Amazon to find out. We’re measuring the forest from 10m underground to 65m above it. Tens of sensors monitor the comings and goings of water, energy, gases, and light. Some sensors are handheld, requiring climbing tall trees... -
Brazil 2012 Chapter 1: Journey from Manaus to Santarém
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsHere is a video documenting Ty’s and my first week in the Brazilian Amazon as part of a 4-month research campaign. We started off by picking up instruments and visiting friends at the University in Manaus – INPA. Then we journeyed by boat from Manaus to Santarém along the Amazon River. It was a fantastic... -
Turning the taps off to create a drought in the Biosphere 2 tropical forest biome
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsHere is the final piece that I produced for the Biosphere 2 (B2) Science and Society Fellowship. This audio-slideshow explains an up-coming experiment to simulate a drought in the tropical forest biome at B2, led by Joost van Haren. Scientists at the University of Arizona combine measurements in the tropical forest at B2 with those... -
Tropical forest up in the clouds
Posted on July 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsOur next stop on the tropical plant course was a remote field station called Cuerici, located at 2600 m on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica’s Talamancan mountains. It was my first time in cloud forest and I found it to be a very magical experience. Moss clad branches line the road that leads up... -
Costa Rican plant course
Posted on June 10, 2012 | 3 CommentsI’m lucky enough to be in Costa Rica at the moment for a 5-week course run by the Organization for Tropical Studies, to learn how to identify tropical plants. I’m really excited to be on this course, because identifying plants or even trees in the tropics is a daunting task, given the high diversity of... -
How can we find out how a forest is structured? – shoot lasers at it!
Posted on June 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsLast week, I spent a couple of days at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (known as SERC) in Maryland. I was lucky enough to be invited to visit by Dr Sean McMahon, a Senior Scientist at SERC who kindly offered to give me some training on an instrument I’ll be using later this summer in... -
![[Ty] This climb has been a long time coming! I feel like Babo is a sort of right of passage to novice climbers in Arizona. My main motivation for learning to climb in AZ has been to learn the technical skills necessary to step up our outdoor pursuits to include mountains and more technical terrain....](http://www.tyeenandmaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/P4295006-195x110.jpg "Climbing Baboquivari Peak, southern Arizona")
Climbing Baboquivari Peak, southern Arizona
Posted on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment[Ty] This climb has been a long time coming! I feel like Babo is a sort of right of passage to novice climbers in Arizona. My main motivation for learning to climb in AZ has been to learn the technical skills necessary to step up our outdoor pursuits to include mountains and more technical terrain.... -
Measuring how leaves breathe with Biosphere 2 visitors
Posted on March 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsYesterday I did an outreach event as part of my B2 Science and Society Fellowship. I helped visitors to take leaf-level measurements on branch clippings taken from the Biosphere 2 tropical forest biome using instruments called the LiCOR 6400 and poromoter. I really enjoyed talking to people about my research, and how the instruments work.... -
Going solo: West to East Maroon Pass Trip
Posted on February 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhen?: 16-17 July 2011 Where?: Maroon Bells – Snowmass Wilderness Area, a few miles north of Gothic, Colorado How far?: 27 miles (hiking) Who?: mostly solo I drew this route out a couple of weeks before hand and was pretty obsessed with doing it from then on. It was all I could think about come... -
The quest to find my research question
Posted on October 20, 2011 | No CommentsI am very happy to have been awarded Biosphere 2’s Science and Society Fellowship (2011-2012), a programme which provides graduate student scientists training and opportunities to develop how they interpret their work to public audiences. As part of the programme, I will be giving a couple of talks at Biosphere 2, I am taking a...