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Daniela Cusack

@daniela-cusack.bsky.social
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Just give me world peace and #rainforest #soil #carbon. Associate Prof. CSU. Check out my PARCHED science project in Panama: youtu.be/oDm2SKWHw78 colostate.academia.edu/DanielaCusack

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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.earth.com/news/tropica... Nice new story on our research in @parched-panama.bsky.social
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Tropical trees are growing deeper roots to survive droughts
Trees lost many surface roots in drought but grew more deep roots that reached wetter soil. Fungal partners helped roots take up water.
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Nice coverage from CSU Source news hub on our recent @parched-panama.bsky.social study! warnercnr.source.colostate.edu/tropical-for...
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New research from my group @parched-panama.bsky.social showing that rainforest drying suppresses root growth and biomass in surface soils, while stimulating deep root production! Let us know what you think! doi.org/10.1111%2Fnp...
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Parched-Panama @parched-panama.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Our new website featuring the Panama Drying experiment and other work!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Check our my new group research website! www.cusackcarbonsystemsgroup.org
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Cusack CarbonSystems Group
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Nice news story on my group @parched-panama.bsky.social research on climate change and tropical roots! news.mongabay.com/2025/07/trop... news.mongabay.com/2025/07/trop...
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Tropical Root Trait (TropiRoot) @tropiroot.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot held a large group meeting on May 19th, featuring engaging presentations and insightful discussions on various aspects of below-ground traits. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots
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Parched-Panama @parched-panama.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New paper from @parched-panama.bsky.social on climate history effects on microbial responses to stress! Differences in similar microbes from Panama vs. Colorado. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... N Bouskill, S Chacon @daniela-cusack.bsky.social L Dietterich, L Chen, A Khurram, J Voriskova, H Holman
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Hooray for our new collaborative tropical root data paper from the @tropiroot.bsky.social team! esajournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Brunch party to wrap a great @parched-panama.bsky.social research semester with my team at CSU! Processed 192 Panama root biomass samples and another 200+ soil samples!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congrats to CSU MS student Grace McLaughlin for receiving a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellowship for her research on @parched-panama.bsky.social rainforest drying effects on soil microbes!
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American Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Help others understand the breadth of biology by entering the Faces of Biology Photo Contest. #facesofbiology #iambiology #photocontest #aibs www.aibs.org/faces-of-bio...
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 02/04/2025
EGU expresses its full #support for all #AmericanScientificSocieties, particularly our sibling organisations: the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Geological Society of America (GSA), and the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). 📷: Jihyeok Park, imaggeo.egu.eu 🔗 Read more : egu.eu/9WTBAC
Image description: background of the Antelope Canyon, with text reading: " European Geosciences Union (EGU) logo and text stating 'EGU stands with American scientific societies".
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Great day for undergrad root research with @parched-panama.bsky.social today at CSU! Undergrads Ally Lewis,.Maya McCain and Hailey Tharp did a great job, with my MS student Grace McLaughlin helping advise! GOOOOO tropical root research @tropiroot.bsky.social
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Colorado State Community, please join be at the tilt.colostate.edu/oura/curc-da... undergrad research day this Thursday to applaud our great undergraduate researchers!
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CURC Day-of Documents | OURA | The Institute for Learning and Teaching
Important information for CURC, including schedules, abstract booklet, building maps, digital presentation gallery, and community guidelines
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thinking hard at the @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting about next directions in tropical root research!
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Parched-Panama @parched-panama.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Bravo to our stellar undergad @parched-panama.bsky.social root researchers at Colorado State University ES&S! Maya McCain, Ally Lewis, and Hailey Tharpe have been crushing it all semester!
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Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Available position as Researcher in Terrestrial Ecology in Tromsø! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/72-rese...
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Submit an abstract about your tropical research and come present in Oaxaca! The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) abstract deadline is Friday! www.atbc2025.org/call-abstracts
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Call for Abstracts | ATBC2025
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Parched-Panama @parched-panama.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Go @parched-panama.bsky.social dry season 2025 field team! Olivia Aaron, Eric Valdes, Grace McLaughlin and Katie Nelson collecting soils, roots, and trace gases!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Protest in Boulder CO organized by former Rep David Skaggs: Monday, March 3, at 11:45 outside the NOAA-NIST "campus" on South Broadway, just a bit south of the intersection with Baseline Rd. Those who work at the NOAA labs are at the forefront of understanding and tackling climate change.
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today is the deadline for #ESA2025 contributed abstracts! I could definitely use some good time with a giant group of ecologists right about now. If you can, please come meet me in Baltimore and let's chat forests, soils, global change, or anything else ecology-related! esa.org/baltimore202...
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Call for Contributed Abstracts  – 2025 Annual MeetingTop of Page
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great @parched-panama.bsky.social poster at CSU grad student poster symposium. Drying alters tropical forest tree growth!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Great leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u... Well this is bad. I guess I'll still submit my NSF proposal this week?
nytimes.com
White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting today! We have many ideas and plans for understanding tropical root dynamics and responses to global change! With @kaaze7.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @nathalygr.bsky.social @carolmiron.bsky.social @lauratoro.bsky.social @baizalla.bsky.social
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting today! Many great things in the works to advance our understanding of tropical root dynamics and responses to global change!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Congrats to Alyssa Schaefer on defending a great undergrad honors these on the importance of research experiences for the undergrad experience at Colorado State Univ!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thrilled to see this 2-volume book published on "100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Sci." - A monument to tropical forests, led by H Muller-Landau & SJ Wright! @smithsonianmag.bsky.social @parched-panama.bsky.social smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Alex Hedgpeth dissertation defense at UCLA Geography happening now! ucla.zoom.us/j/9736647097...
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Right now I'd like to just say, thank God for comedians. Dear Saturday Night Live, Onion, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, you are getting me though this dark time 🖤 @theonion.com @npr.org @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
My enviro sci students were so sad today :( It's hard not to feel hopeless on the climate front now (and other fronts). To cheer ourselves, we devised the "carbon resistance" in which we will sequestered as much carbon as possible under the soil fertility umbrella: "Make America's Soils Great Again"
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Parched-Panama @parched-panama.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
@parched-panama.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Happy to be here - check out our work on drying effects on tropical forests in Panama with @daniela7cusack.bsky.social @karis-mcfarlane.bsky.social @bsulman.bsky.social and many others!
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Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Ah, I feel better already just being off "X". Hello Bluesky
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Karis McFarlane @karis-mcfarlane.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Experimental warming and drying increase the age of C in soil CO2 flux in tropical forest - via different mechanisms!Warming increased decomposition ==> older soil C losses. Drying reduced microbial access to new plant carbon inputs. Read more in our paper with @daniela7cusack.bsky.social &others
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