The Saleska Lab – Ecosystem ecology from the Amazon to the arctic

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Saleska lab intro film

Welcome to the Saleska Lab! Enjoy our introductory film and learn how we do ecology and ecosystem science to understand the fate of the planet under climate change. Film Credits page.

Our research sites

Amazon
Studying forest-atmosphere exchanges in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
Abisko, Sweden
Deciphering methane fluxes along an arctic permafrost thaw gradient
Harvard Forest
Partitioning whole-ecosystem CO2 fluxes to understand mechanisms of carbon sequestration in a temperate forest

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Lab News

8/26/2017 — Scott Saleska in Nature story about DOE scrubbing “climate change”
Nature news reports on how US energy agency asked scientists to scrub references to climate change. Scott Saleska was among those who received an emailed request to modify the wording of the summary of a DOE project recently awarded to SaleskaLab, and told Nature that the request was a symptom of research priorities being set by political […]
8/26/17 — Moira Hough’s FICUS proposal is one of 14 supported by DOE
DOE announced this week 14 new projects to be supported by its Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, and Saleskalab is among them. The proposal was put together by Moira Hough for sequencing of microbial DNA (by JGI) and analysis of soil organic matter (by EMSL) from her samples from Stordalen Mire, our Arctic […]
3/14/2017 — Rick Wehr’s The long-solved problem of the best-fit straight line is out in Biogeosciences
The long-solved problem of the best-fit straight line:application to isotopic mixing lines by Richard Wehr and Scott R. Saleska Scientists in a wide variety of disciplines are commonly confronted with the problem of how to fit a straight line to data points that were measured with uncertainty in both X and Y. Much of the […]
3/13/2017 – Scott Saleska joins 30 Climate Scientists in letter correcting EPA chief Scott Pruitt
30 leading scientists (led by Nobel laureate Mario Molina, and including 3 from U. of Arizona: Scott Saleska, Jonathan Overpeck, Joellen Russell) respond to EPA chief Scott Pruitt's doubt that human-emitted CO2 is a cause of warming. See coverage in the Washington Post.
3/2/2017: From our friends in Manaus: plant community composition tells of influences of pre-columbian humans on Amazonian forests
INPA Ph.D. student Carolina Levis and her mentor Flávia Costa lead 100+ authors in this novel analysis in the March 3, 2017 issue of Science, concluding: "modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples"

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Saleska lab intro film

Our research sites

Amazon

Abisko, Sweden

Harvard Forest

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