On behalf of the Invasive Species Collaborative @VT I want to thank the Virginia Tech Provost and everyone involved in awarding us 1 of 2 Destination Area 2.0 Phase 2 awards!

We are excited that Virginia Tech is making a huge investment in #invasivespecies .

What does it mean…🧵

news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

Jacob Barney Todd Schenk Meryl Mims Emily Reed Joe Drake David Haak Michael Sorice Luis E. Escobar Haldre

Wonderful gathering of seed dispersal researchers ATBC in Coimbatore, India today. The future of seed dispersal research is in good hands with this stellar group of early career biologists! CoDisperse

📣BIPOC scholars finishing up their PhDs📣
Check out Virginia Tech's Future Faculty Diversity Program!

This is an academic job market professionalization mentorship program that can unlock postdoc & TT lines at VT. (It's how I got my job!)

Due 15 Aug
inclusive.vt.edu/Programs/FDP/F…

Cana and Corinas website is respectfulresearch.com.com. Highly recommend for resources about how to work with Indigenous communities, by Inupiaq community members. #ArcticResearch #IndigenousSTEM #NativesInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM

Wow! Zooming out Super Typhoon #Mawar 🌀😮

3 hours; 2023-05-25 via Himawari 🛰️ CIRA/JMA/JAXA

CNMI lawmakers concerned about proposed National Marine Sanctuary.

Public hearings:
5/17 Guam
5/18 Saipan
5/19 Rota
5/20 Tinian

youtu.be/CNyfjyOWPEY

One focus of my research at @vtecostudies is investigating effects of global change on species interactions, & variation over space & time.

We're investing how iNaturalist can be used to fill data gaps! If you 💚 #caterpillars , contribute to our project! inaturalist.org/projects/cater…

Come work with me!!! apply.interfolio.com/124540

Check this out! Luis covers seed dispersal by animals, the threats to this mutualism, and our recent paper on what that means for plants in a changing climate - all in one minute! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'll use this as an opportunity to do my semi-regular 'blue-washing' rant on the paper that says it's better for ocean ecosystems if we bomb an island than let fishing happen.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ep8 is live! Meenakshi (Mini) Wadhwa journeys to Antarctica searching for meteorites to study the formation of our solar system. She talks about working in Antarctica, a terrible field accident, & why representation matters as a woman of color in science. player.captivate.fm/episode/09843a… #podcast

Such a delight to interview Scott Parazynski, who has led an absolutely incredible life. ER physician, luge athlete, tech CEO, rock climber, entrepreneur, scuba diver, mountaineer, & veteran astronaut. First person to orbit the Earth and summit Mt Everest. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wil…

Ep7 of Wild World is out of this world! I speak with Scott Parazynski, former NASA astronaut who completed 5 missions to space. He’s also a physician and explorer who summited Everest, competed in luge, & studied extremophiles in high elevation lakes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wil…

Check out the new podcast from my friend Scott Solomon, and hear me talk about science and conservation and rugby. Listen to @AdrienneSCorrea’s episode (#4) to learn more about coral reefs too!

Can you imagine a world without birds? On the island of Guam, where bird-eating snakes were accidentally introduced in the 1940s, the forests no longer have native birds. Ecologist Haldre is trying to understand what happens when birds disappear. player.captivate.fm/episode/40b059…

Really important discussion on human-wildlife interactions put forth by henry_fandel about #Luta Åga (Mariana Crow) #MTCC2023

Excited for the Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference to start tomorrow! Check it out here - marianasterrestrialconservation.org tanotasitodu