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Carrie Havrilla

@drylandlab.bsky.social

Assitant Professor and Director of the Dryland Ecology and Management Lab @ColoStateU studying #plantecology, #biocrusts, #restoration, #ecovoltaics and adaptive management in #drylands. Lab website: www.drylandecology.com

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Carrie Havrilla @drylandlab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Our lab is excited to begin working on ecovoltaics research exploring potential synergies between solar development and ecological restoration in drylands. www.pivotenergy.net/news-release...

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CSU’s Climate Research Gets Major Boost with $60,000 Grant from Pivot Energy

CSU receives $60,000 from Pivot Energy to advance research on dryland ecosystems and solar energy synergies, promoting renewable energy and ecological restoration.

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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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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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Carrie Havrilla @drylandlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hi, Bluesky! I am an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. based in #FortCollins, CO studying #drylands and #restoration with a focus on #plantecology, #biocrusts, #functionaltraits, and #rangelandecology. I'm excited to connect about science here!

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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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