🌲 Insights On Water Use, Carbon Storage, & Ecosystem Restoration 🌿

👩 🤝In today’s episode, we sit down with Lucy Penn Kerhoulas, an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry, Fire, and Rangeland Management at Cal Poly Humboldt. As a tree physiologist, Lucy is fascinated by the many aspects of forests and uses diverse methods to deepen her understanding of these vital ecosystems. 🌳

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🌲 Focusing on the coniferous forests of the western U.S., Lucy gathers information through tree climbing, gas exchange measurements, water potential measurements, stable isotopes of water and wood, dendrochronology, and plot-level descriptive data. With this research, she is on a mission to discover how water use and carbon storage impact forest systems – and much more… 🌍 🌊

🚀 Discover:

1. The types of 🏞️ human activities that impact forest ecosystems.
2. How 🌲 restoration treatments influence water availability to the trees left behind from thinning efforts.
3. How 🌱 water is shared across species in a forest.
4. The ways that 🌳 trees respond to drought.

🔊 Learn more about Lucy Penn and her research, Click the link in our bio or description above 🔗☝

Episode also available on 🍎Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/38oMlMr