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Tara Bishop

@coleoptara.bsky.social
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Dryland ecologist wondering about plants, soil, microbes, and cute fuzzy critters. Love sharing that passion with my students and the world around me. Asst Professor at Utah Valley University

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking for the Southwest Chapter at ESA 2026? You can find us at our table in the exhibit hall or at one of our events! We have an organized oral session, a business mixer and a career central event. We are excited to see everyone in Salt Lake City!🌵
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help! nisoplusglobalonline.cadmore.media/Home
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Come see my amazing undergrad Christine at 8:30! #esa2025 @esa-sw.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social COS 089-03 - The effects of fire and dryland rodent community interactions on the number and viability of creosote (Larrea tridentata) seed. Wed, Aug 13 8:30 – 8:45 AM EDT
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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
@esa-sw.bsky.social look how cool our chapter is getting a high-five for being “good students” and getting all of our paperwork in which includes accomplishing expected activities :) #ESA2025 If you are in Baltimore, come join us at our social event on Wednesday and our OOS - Wed @3:30
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Happy to share our recent paper using Ecological Site Groups to better understand plant community changes &their relationship with wildfire & drought on the Colorado Plateau. Part of a fantastic project working with land managers & scientists alike. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Carrie Havrilla @drylandlab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
[Inaugural Blue Sky post!] New paper out on #biocrust- plant interactions led by recent lab alumnus MS student John Bacovcin. Morphological seed traits structure relationships between biocrusts and plant emergence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Way excited for Savannah's defense next week! If you love biogeochemistry and thinking about potential for soil carbon management, mark your calendar for Monday, July 28th @ 11:00 AM MDT (or stop by campus if you're in Moab 😉) Public Zoom Link: usu.zoom.us/j/8144285688...
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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!
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Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.
“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...
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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our new review is out led by @michalaphillips.bsky.social examining #biocrust recovery amidst climate change 👇 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate
Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...
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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Science is still happening! Hopeful that our new paper can serve as a resource for those seeking or making digital seed-based restoration tools: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Send me a message if you need access @coleoptara.bsky.social @restorecal.bsky.social @magdagarbowski.bsky.social
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Incredible weekend in the field with some of my stellar undergrad researchers doing work with PJ woodlands in Grand Staircase Escalante NM. They even came out the starting weekend of Spring Break!
Utah Valley University Environmental science students and their advisor, Dr Tara Bishop join Marc Cole’s-Ritchie for field work excursion in Grand Staircase-Escalante NM  Dr Bishop stretched too far in the “silly pose”
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🎉🎉 Truly a privilege to learn & work w/ these incredible people & datasets available from our public agencies. “The workflow presented here can serve as a template for describing ecological dynamics…, and support prioritization of land for conservation and climate adaptation activities”
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾 tucson.com/opinion/colu...
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Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future
The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Excited to share this new review in #LandscapeEcology on applications of UAVs. Expertly led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social & a wonderful team of coauthors. link.springer.com/article/10.1... This is part of a special issue on UAVs & has other great papers that I invite you to check out!
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Applications of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) in landscape ecology: a review of recent research, challenges and emerging opportunities - Landscape Ecology
Context Unoccupied aerial systems/vehicles (UAS/UAV, a.k.a. drones) have become an increasingly popular tool for ecological research. But much of the recent research is concerned with developing mappi...
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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New paper out, led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social. There's a disconnect between remote sensing advances and application to ecology (including only 11 UAS papers in Landscape Ecology!). We provide a guide for using drones to answer ecological ?s: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uas #drones
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
For those who still think that planting trees is a solution to mitigate CO2 emissions, please take note! Forest offset programs can also burn! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | @globalchangebio.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Want to learn more about the CARE principles? This town hall at #AGU24 will discuss utilizing Indigenous data sovereignty principles in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. 🔗agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meet… #AGUPubs
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
For folks attending #AGU24, our lab has its 1st conference poster presentation led by PhD student Rebecca Senft! @RebeccaSenft Stop by her poster on the morning of Tues Dec10 to learn about the ecohydrology of contrasting riparian tree species (invasive vs native) in SE Utah. #ecophys #invasion
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
*in a joyful whisper* I got spirit, yes I do! 📣
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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Feeling pretty excited about new projects in pinyon-juniper woodlands w/ a great combo of collaborators. It was a difficult but magical semester bringing my natural resource students and mentored research students to help collect data in some of the most beautiful places in the world.
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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Look at this wonderful line up! Can't wait!!
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