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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My colleague Sarah Batterman and others from @caryinstitute.bsky.social are organizing what looks like a great crash course on ecosystem ecology for graduate students at an exceptionally affordable cost:

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#ESA2025 submissions now open for workshops, special sessions, Career Central sessions, short courses, field trips. No hybrid sessions this year. Career central sessions are new, with a second "projects in planning" poster session to be announced in February: www.esa.org/baltimore2025/

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Please share! The Grand Challenges Initiative is one of the most innovative postdoctoral research and teaching fellowship programs in the country. We have a >85% placement rate into faculty positions! The secret sauce is that we invest in building a supportive postdoctoral community. Join us!

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Scholander et al., from their 1965 Science paper describing the method for measuring plant water potential, on why their proof was better carried out in mangroves than redwoods:

Text from Scholander on decision to measure mangroves, rather than redwoods, in order to understand plant water potentials.

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

It's hard to imagine a more transformative opportunity for graduating seniors interested in climate and environmental justice, led by the truly remarkable @cavesandclimate.bsky.social at UCI:

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

A new one from my colleague @hsubox.bsky.social on promoting student interest in plant biology through an inquiry-based module exploring plant circadian rhythm, gene expression, and defense against insects: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Just read 110 special session, workshop and short course descriptions for #ESA2024. There's something for everyone and a lot to be excited about. But that was a lot of reading.

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Is this answer too meta for you? In all seriousness, I am going to use Perusall this semester in my class (automated grading of student annotations of primary literature). I'll let you know how it goes.

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Pretty close to the syllabus, as it stands.

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Martin (1923) writing in Science. More than 100 years later and it does not feel that we are any closer...

What is a plant? The writer has unsuccessfully sought for a definition of hte term plant suitable to use when introducing the subject of botany to college classes.

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

We are hard at work getting #ESA2024 in Long Beach, California ready for our community. Submit an abstract, spread the word and join us: www.esa.org/longbeach202...

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

A map from my student Ashley Agatep uses remote sensing data from NASA's ECOSTRESS mission to show the hottest neighborhoods in SF during this fall's heat dome. She made this map as part of a class in just a few hours with open source data and software. Amazing what the students can do these days...

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

An exciting new #isotope #ecohydrology paper from Chapman University's Dr. Emily Burt. One of the first papers to calculate ages of water as it moves through soils, streams, and trees: hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/...

$Violin and inset boxplots of the young water fractions (Fyw) for lysimeter, stream, and branch xylem water, as deter- mined from a bootstrap resampling routine.$

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

We're growing at Chapman University! We have open assistant professorships in #math, #physics, #philosophy, #mathed, #environmentalscience, #lifescience, #chemistry and #chemed. Amazing opportunity to come and learn together with a new cohort of teacher-scholars....happy to answer any/all questions!

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