Looking back to the start of the TRACE #Decomposition Experiment this summer🤩 We’re studying how #warmer temperatures influence decomposition rates of Guarea guidonia, Cecropia schreberiana, and wooden popsicle sticks in #ElYunque National Forest
#ForestWarming #Research #Tropical
TRACE techs, past intern, and manager presented at #ESA2025 🔥
We covered topics such as #soil CO2 fluxes from an incubation experiment, #fineroot dynamics in a #drought experiment, mat forming #fungi under warming, and #engagement of #PuertoRican students through our #ForestWarming project.
Final TRACE talk at #ESA2025 Join the conversation about fostering engagement of Puerto Rican students in ecological research!
#ForestWarming #Research #Ecology #Accessibility #ResearchNetworks
Coming up next! Catch @tanawood.bsky.social at #ESA2025 at 1:45pm
#ForestWarming #drought #TropicalForest
Don’t miss our poster session at #ESA2025 today (Tue Aug 12) at 5:00pm 🌱🫚
TRACE technician Laura Rubio will talk about fine root biomass and production in the LUQ-LTER drought experiment.
#fineroots #rootbiomass #tropicalecology #ForestWarming #drought
Measuring height, moisture, and mass of the standing litter layer inside the #TRACE plots. Also subsampling for nutrients! Looking forward to comparing between warmed and control plots.
Part 1 of our 2025-2026 #decomposition experiment.
#ForestWarming #ElYunque #PuertoRico #Ecology
Visit from the Geospatial #DataScience Training, a collaboration between University of Puerto Rico, USDA, & Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of #PuertoRico 🏫
This was great for our team to practice #sciencecommunication and #outreach🗣
#ForestWarming #STEM #Research #ElYunque
First day in the #field for #interns Daliz and Sofía🥾
They learned how to perform project inspection, returned unused #soil to the field, and helped remove old scientific equipment💪
#ForestWarming #TRACE #ElYunque #STEM #Science #Research #PuertoRico #TropicalEcology
TRACE Summer 2025❗
Please join us in welcoming our new summer cohort! We have a mix of interns 🏫, PhD candidates, Postdocs, and PIs.
Stay tuned for introductions, lots of research, and summer fun! 😄
#TRACE #PuertoRico #ElYunque #ForestWarming #Research #STEM #LTER
Flowers of the #PuertoRico royal palm (𝙍𝙤𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙖) fell in the #TRACE leaf litter baskets🌸
#ForestWarming #Nature #ElYunque #Observation #PuertoRico #leaflitter #TropicalEcology #Ecology #biomass
Soil is precious!⭐️
Returning unused #soil to the #ForestWarming field site.
#tropical #soil #puertorico #elyunque #research #soilbiogeochemistry #forest #science #stem
Recently replaced a #soil moisture and temperature sensor at the #TRACE site 🤩
#ForestWarming #TropicalForests #SoilScience
Started #fieldwork just before sunrise for collection of canopy photos and leaf area measurements inside the #TRACE plots.
#ForestWarming #TropicalForest
Catch TRACE #ForestWarming in the Globo Repórter, a Brazilian documentary tv show📺 USDA Forest Service Research Ecologist and TRACE PI, Dr. Tana Wood @tanawood.bsky.social was interviewed in Apr 2024, while the team showed #fieldwork techniques🌿 Link for more!
www.forestwarming.org/media-coverage
Oct 2024: TRACE tech Deyaneira Ortiz visited schools in the West coast of #PuertoRico & talked about #oceanacidification, #soil & the #ForestWarming project!👩🏽🏫
Through this effort by Luquillo #LTER Data Jam, students asked questions & were excited to learn throughout!
#Outreach #Education #Science
