On Wednesday, April 8, Xiuchen successfully defended his M.A. thesis on "Changes in bur oak leaf temperature, critical temperature, and thermal safety margin under elevated temperature and CO2." Congratulations Xiuchen!

On Friday, April 3, Riley successfully defended her M.A. thesis on "Assessing the Biogeophysical Cooling Potential of Constructed Prairie with Eddy Covariance & Thermal UAS Remote Sensing." Congratulations Riley!

In a new article in Environmental Research Letters, ECH2O Lab personnel show that annual tree growth models are not sensitive to large differences in precipitation among gridded meteorological datasets.

In a new article in Nature Communications, Wen Zhang, Matt Dannenberg, and colleagues show that seasonal feedbacks slowed the rate of autumn vegetation greening of the Northern Hemisphere.

In a new article in Geophysical Research Letters, Wang et al. use a millennial tree-ring reconstruction and climate simulations to show that recent humidification of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is exceptional and that wet-to-dry transitions are unprecedented over the past millennium.

In a new paper in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Miriam Johnston shows that carbon and water fluxes of U.S. ecosystems respond differently to vapor pressure deficit if it's driven by high temperatures than if it's driven by low humidity.

Graduate student Riley Pacer was awarded first place in University of Iowa's 2024 Capture Your Research graduate division for her photo of the Ashton Prairie flux tower.