1/24– Lots of great local press for our latest research published in Urban Ecosystems!
Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover, by Ida Lieszkovsky for Ideastream
Examining what happened to Northeast Ohio’s forests, by Sam Allard for Axios Cleveland
BW Faculty-student research shows dramatic changes in NE Ohio forests, by Shawn Salamone for BW
Video interview with Liv Ream of Cool Cleveland
6/26/23– Zak Hughes ’24 is killing it in the lab this summer, turning out exciting results on how historical land use has impacted forests in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Stay tuned!
2/28/22– Congratulations to Madison and Abigail for presenting their research at the Ohio Natural History Conference!
1/24/22– New work out in Forest Ecology and Management: A 250-year tree-ring chronology shows gap dynamics and disease-causing invasive species drive the development of an old-growth forest. Congratulations to Madison and Abigail on their first publication!
10/7/21– 45,519 tree rings cross-dated!
8/17/21– Baldwin Wallace honored me with the Gigax Faculty Scholarship Award.
7/19/21– Have you heard about trees communicating, caring for one another, and cooperating? My latest piece for Scientific American examines what’s really going on.
5/1/21– Wildflower walk at Richfield Heritage Preserve
11/7/2020– I will speak on “Ecological impacts of invasive earthworms” to the Natural Science Club, 7:30 pm at the historic Look About Lodge in the South Chagrin Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
7/7/2020– This video sums it up– I am so grateful to be able to do cool research that creates opportunities for amazing students like Abigail and Madison. Thank you BW! and thank you Damien Campbell for the video!
5/18/2020– Abigail Cox, Madison Dolnicek and I are enjoying field work collecting tree cores in A.B. Williams Woods.
10/29/19– Dendroecology Day 1 was a success! Students extracted lots of beautiful tree cores!
5/29/19– Check out my new articles on Cuyahoga County’s vegetation and A.B. Williams Woods in the amazing Encyclopedia of Cleveland History!
5/2/19– Our resurvey study of A.B. Williams Woods is out in Torrey: Flinn et al 2019.
4/18/19– All are welcome to join me for a wildflower walk, 1:15 pm. We will meet at BW and drive vans to Tinkers Creek. Please RSVP.
10/9-10/18– Ecology class service-learning field trip doing ecological restoration at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
9/8/18– Talk about Cuyahoga County’s once and future forests with the Kirtlandia Society at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 10 am in the Rare Book Room
9/4/18– Talk about Cuyahoga County’s once and future forests with Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society at Rocky River Nature Center, 7:30 pm https://www.facebook.com/events/270464573701658/
8/30-31/18– Plant Evolution class field trip to Kelleys Island
8/1/18– Chloe and Elisha present their poster at the SEARCH Symposium
June 2018– Field work in A.B. Williams Woods with Elisha Bly and Chloe Dickinson, resurveying plots established in 1932. We are seeing major compositional changes in this old-growth forest over 86 years!
5/1/18– Reading from Voices from the Rust Belt at Brews + Prose
4/26/18– WCPN covers our research on Cuyahoga County’s forests: hear the story.
4/26/18– Help celebrate Earth Week by planting trees, 4 pm at Telfer Hall
4/7/18– Launch party for Voices from the Rust Belt, 7:30 at Happy Dog west
3/23/18– Our witness tree research is out in Journal of Vegetation Science! Also, nice press coverage from BW
2/24/18– Tylor Mahany presents his poster and I give a talk at the Ohio Natural History Conference
11/30/17– Research done by BIO 122 students comes out in Northeastern Naturalist: Invasive earthworms ingest and digest garlic mustard seeds at rates equal to native seeds!
6/15/17– Do earthworms facilitate plant invasions? I ask in the Huffington Post
6/3-9/17– Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference in Vermont
5/21-25/17–Botany Field Meeting in the limestone region of northern New Jersey
4/20/17– We celebrate Arboretum Day by planting and labeling trees and dedicating the new tree-ring exhibit in Telfer Hall
4/12/17– The Fullmer Arboretum and BW gain recognition as a Tree Campus USA. Join us April 20 for Arboretum Day!
4/7/17– Our companion papers on serpentine plants come out in Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
4/7/17– Invited seminar and wonderful visit with Glenn Matlack and other members of the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University
4/5/17– My essay asking, What do plants mean? is out in Minding Nature
10/22/16– I lead a workshop at the Writing Wild conference, sponsored by the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Literary Cleveland– sign up here
10/4-5/16– Ecology class service learning trip to Cuyahoga Valley National Park: field sampling, fence building, tree planting, hiking… and tacos
9/26/16– My essay The ecology of ruin is out in Belt Magazine
9/20/16– Our earthworm investigations make the news
9/20/16– Our paper on Jennifer and Hannah’s undergraduate research is in press at Torrey
9/5/16– My latest explains how an innocent native plant ended up a reality TV star– read the story on The Conversation and The Huffington Post
7/5/16– Enjoyed walking and talking about reading (and writing) the landscape with the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Literary Cleveland
6/28/16– My collaboration with undergraduates Hannah Kuhns and Jennifer Mikes, and colleagues Eric Lonsdorf and Jeff Lake, is in press at Torrey in a special, open access issue on invasive species
5/21/16– Fun plant walk at Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Bioblitz
4/30/16– Removing invasive wintercreeper from BW’s Fullmer Arboretum on Arbor Day
4/28/16– Tylor Mahany and Nathan Sabo present their poster at Ovation
11/8/15– Even if the “balance of nature” concept is vague and outdated, can it still be useful? I ask in the Chronicle Review: read the story.
10/20/15– Ecology students doing ecological restoration in Cuyahoga Valley National Park
7/1/15– Lab moves to Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio
6/6-12/15– Botany Field Meeting in the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
4/15– Students enjoying isopod sampling in Lititz Run
4/22/15– Wildflower Walk at Bellaire Woods
4/17/15– Hannah and Jennifer present their poster at the Spring Research Fair
2/19/15– Very stimulating discussions after my talk at the Muhlenberg Botanical Society meeting
12/20/14– My students made a website about the plants of Longwood Gardens and their connections to people: Meet the plants!
12/9/14– The students of Plant-Human Interactions take on Longwood Gardens!
10/7/14– Our research makes the news!
9/25/14– Botany accepts our paper about the reproductive biology of hayscented fern
August 2014– Field work in the serpentine barrens with Jennifer Mikes and Hannah Kuhns
7/28-30/14– Jess Bechhofer and I present our poster at Botany 2014 in Boise, Idaho
5/7-9/14– Botany Field Meeting in Aldie, Virginia
4/17/14– Wildflower Walk at Shenk’s Ferry
4/12/14– Our paper reporting the impacts of Japanese barberry invasion is accepted!
4/11/2014– Students present two posters at the Spring Research Fair
11/11/2013– We have fern gametophytes coming out our ears!