Post-doc studying how plants and ecosystems respond to solar energy co-location @Cornell
Fort Collins, CO
Joined October 2019
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You’re probably thinking “how could solar energy ☀️significantly reduce the spatial footprint of energy production in croplands 🌽 while providing several ecological benefits?”
We had the same question! For answers, read our recent publication in PNAS.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Environmental Heterogeneity Imposed by Photovoltaic Array Alters Grassland Soil Microbial Communities
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@microsigs @msturch2 @csubiology @alan_knapp
Agrivoltaics in New York! 🧑🌾
Check out our new paper reporting how the microclimate ☀️🌧️🌡️created by solar arrays controls patterns of crop productivity during a fall growing season.
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years theconversation.com/solar-pa…
Converting a small fraction of fields producing corn for ethanol in the Mississippi River watershed into solar farms could greatly expand renewable energy production while mitigating pollution of the Mississippi River from fertilizer runoff. In PNAS: ow.ly/k6N650VHcVr
ALT Map of corn ethanol land-cover with high technical potential for solar energy development across the United States (yellow) and runoff in the Mississippi River watershed (blue).
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Strategically converting a small fraction of land used to grow corn for #ethanol to #solar facilities could vastly increase energy production per hectare and provide ecological benefits and financial resiliency for farmers. @CornellCALS @PNASNews #EarthDay news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Very excited to have this out (and in Nature Geoscience, no less!).
We returned to in-field incubations of isotopically enriched litter and pyrogenic OM ten years after inception, and were able to glean some insights into the persistence patterns of the SOM that was formed.
Article: Decadal persistence of grassland soil organic matter derived from litter and pyrogenic inputs
@samleuthold @jso_soong @csuagsci
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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Using the proposed 880 MW solar park in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, as a case study, a recent paper highlights the importance of aligning green energy with biodiversity conservation goals.
@KhanyariMunib @ncfindia @msturch2 @alan_knapp
✒️@nikhil_2992
india.mongabay.com/2024/12/s…
New paper alert 📝
For those interested in this topic...co-authored by @msturch2
Ecovoltaics in an increasingly water-limited world: An ecological perspective: One Earth cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/…
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Audio: Ecovoltaics aims to co-prioritize energy production and ecosystem services, which could mean growing crops, providing grazing land for animals, or even increasing carbon sequestration. #AgrivoltaicsCon
eos.org/articles/solar-panel…
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New research detailing how solar arrays impact the plants beneath.
See below (and more at):
ecovoltaicscolorado.wixsite.…
Solar arrays create novel environments that uniquely alter plant responses - Sturchio - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
New paper alert 📝
Solar arrays create novel environments that uniquely alter plant responses.
We discuss how diurnal patterns of ψL and gsw provide mechanistic insight for the microenvironmental controls of ANPP!
Read more here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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For those who weren't there to smell it, watch as Cosmo the corpse flower blooms 👀
Thousands flocked to #ColoradoState over Memorial Day weekend to see a rare corpse flower during a bloom that was eight years in the making.
Learn and see more ➡️ col.st/SrhXf – at Fort Collins, CO
What the LI-6800 sees when you’re leading a field methods in plant ecology course @LICOR_ENV #ecophys 📷:@josieplantemoji
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VPD, not temperature, limits tropical photosynthesis 💧
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by Slot et al.
@martijn_slot @Sami_Rifai @Nedunsk15
ALT Curves show that photosynthesis and stomatal conductance decrease with increasing VPD, but they increase more steeply when temperature is also in the model.
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Pleased to share our new publication on tree mortality and greening. A great pleasure to work with many colleagues on this project including @SethMMunson
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening rdcu.be/dAQoE
☀️ Want to learn more about Ecovoltaics? ☀️Check out my new article for @ConversationUS theconversation.com/solar-po… – at Fort Collins, CO
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New seminar class just dropped: Academia for Ecologists (ECOL 592-006). What the hell do 'vice provosts of research' even do? How do I negotiate salary? Why do I have to pay a journal to publish?? Let's find out together!! (course starts Mar 19 but gotta register now)
