July 2015: Flurin Babst from Arizona Tree Ring Lab. visiting for the summer – welcome to Bozeman!

July 2015: Jerad Hoy’s summer (2014) research featured in the IoE newsletter on his interactive tool to help understand US emission targets

June 2015: Katie and Kristen at the USGS North Central Science Center Open Science meeting

June 2015: Katie Renwick (PhD CSU) joins the lab to work on climate impacts of sagebrush systems

June 2015: Further confirmation and evidence for the importance of semi-arid systems in the global carbon cycle Ahlstrom et al. Science

May 2015: Leo off to JAMSTEC (Japan), Zhen at WSL (CH) and Nicolas at LSCE (France) for summer research

May 2015: Read an accompanying article in The Conversation discussing how changes in water-use efficiency and transpiration, published by David Frank, myself and others on May 11, 2015 in Nature Climate Change

September 2014: Global Carbon Budget 2014 now online

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-014-3031-6

August 2014: Congrats to MSU Undergrads Jared Hoy and Frances Ambrose on their research this summer on estimating Montana’s greenhouse gas budget and on collecting plant traits for modeling fire effects in Greater Yellowstone!

May 2014: We recently published a paper describing the surprising role of semi-arid systems in the carbon cycle in Nature – the reference, an FAQ, and media are linked here: Nature, May 2014.

For undergraduate students looking for thesis projects related to energy and the environment, the lab has a position available to compile and analyze statistics related to statewide greenhouse gas emissions. Please send me an email at benjamin.poulter@montana.edu if you are interested!

See https://poulterlab.com/open-positions/