The semester is over, which means the lab is gearing up for field season! We are starting new projects and performing spring measurements on our many existing experiments. This year, Sally Koerner will be starting the CHANGE experiment, and the entire lab is launching EDGE, a huge collaborative effort across grasslands in the U.S. We’re also returning to RaMPs – our rainfall manipulation plots – but this time, imposing an extreme drought. Here’s to a productive (pun possibly intended) field season!

Sally Koerner, Qiang Yu, Francis Chaves, John Dietrich, and Ava Hoffman have been accepted to present at Ecological Society of America’s 99th annual meeting in Sacramento, CA.

Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Felton and Jennifer Ackerfield are joining the Smith Lab in Fall 2014.

Welcome!