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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Vegetative and floral buds on southern magnolia (*Magnolia grandiflora*).

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Channeling the pine plantation energy.

A group of people standing in a pine plantation, taken with a wide angle lens so they appear to be standing in a geometric dome constructed of pine stems and crowns.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Wildfire smoke on University of Florida campus this morning. North Florida is a tinderbox.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hummingbirds are jerks. Sound up for the full violent effect.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

Manatees in the clear water of a springfed stream in Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Germinating wiregrass (Aristida beyrichiana) seed.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Snow flurry in Gainesville, Florida this afternoon.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Manatee mama and baby in the run at Blue Springs State Park in Volusia County, Florida. The sign at the entrance indicated that over 450 manatees were in the spring and run that day.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Loblolly pine (*Pinus taeda*) cones. 15-year-old tree in an experiment in north Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.

Top of a pine seedling with a small snake among the needles, looking at the camera.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.

Three deer look at the camera while standing in green grass underneath a pine overstory.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.

A group of people standing at the base of a large longleaf pine tree.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.

Large diamondback rattlesnake obviously swollen from a recent meal.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.

Open scallop with blue eyes located along the edges of its shell.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.

Forest with burnt understory and smoke in background.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Candyroot,*Polygala nana*. Northern Florida flatwoods. Thanks to @ecologyonfire.bsky.social for ID. If it doesn't have bark, I'm clueless.

Yellowish orange flower of candyroot plant.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I was surprised to find that a mountain laurel grows in Florida flatwoods, definitely NOT in the mountains! *Kalmia hirsuta*, hairy mountain-laurel.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The headliner was Lowcut Connie. Great show, super engaged with the crowd.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Attended concert 2.5 hours away from campus with a colleague, opening act was introduced as being from Gainesville. Thought I recognized bassist, turns out she was one of our students. Small world!

The band "Prizilla" performing on stage at Tuffy's Music Box in Sanford, Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Spring primary growth in N. Florida. These 'candles' are expanding embryonic needles formed last fall in overwintered in buds. In this species (longleaf pine), there is generally only one growth cycle. Other southern pines may undergo multiple cycles in a year.

Pine crowns with expanding shoots against a blue sky.

Close up image of an expanding longleaf pine shoot.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Five lined skink on my porch in northern Florida.

View from above of five lined skink with brilliant blue tail.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"House" group on Congress trail, Sequoia National Park.

A person walks toward a group of giant Sequoia trees.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) survivors of the 2021 fire in Sequoia National Park.

Living sugar pine and giant Sequoia trees in a burned landscape.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fusiform rust (Cronartium quercuum) gall on longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) releasing aesciospores. These spores will infect young oak leaves, which will eventually release basidiospores, which can infect pines.

Young longleaf pine stem with a fusiform rust gall. A finger is poking the gall, causing bright orange aesciospores to be released.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Women's crosscut competitors at this year's Association of Southern Forestry Club's annual timber sports event.

A group of women wearing protective chainsaw chaps and holding two-person crosscut saws.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Coming soon to a university near you. Florida has been "test driving" a lot of policies that are likely to be more common in the coming years. Follow me for more fun glimpses into your future.

University of Florida email inviting employee to participate in an Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity survey.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Updating tags on a long-term longleaf pine experiment. The study is examining the effects of prescribed fire and mowing on pine growth and other ecosystem characteristics.

Circular aluminum tag nailed to a longleaf pine stem.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It's spring in northern Florida as leaves emerge on one of the few deciduous conifers, baldcypress (Taxodium distichum).

A baldcypress with light green leaves stands out against a background of pine with darker green foliage.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Reposting some old stuff. Yes, that includes me.

A person measuring xylem pressure potential using a pressure chamber.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tis the season of stupid holiday greetings emails from administrators. Wow, I feel so festive now, despite the fact that you have done everything you can to appease the forces of evil trying to squash higher education in my state!

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Beautiful morning in the north Florida forest with some future natural resource managers. We talked about tree breeding, natural populations of loblolly pine, and eddy covariance.