{"id":559,"date":"2020-05-07T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=559"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T23:06:29","slug":"published-undergraduate-co-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/published-undergraduate-co-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Published Undergraduate Co-authors!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our National Science Foundation (NSF) grant provided funding for two full field seasons at Mount St. Helens. In the first year, we collected a dataset comparing the colonization patterns of willow males and females on the Pumice Plain<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and published a paper in Ecosphere with four undergraduate co-authors<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(LeRoy et al. 2020)<\/span><\/span>!<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the first papers to be published from our work at Mount St. Helens. Four co-authors are undergraduates at The Evergreen State College. (LeRoy et al. 2020, Ecosphere)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Several figures from the paper showing male-female willow differences in initial leaf chemistry and chemistry throughout the decomposition process. (LeRoy et al. 2020, Ecosphere)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We found that the leaf chemistry of male and female willows differs, where\u00a0males have significantly higher nitrogen and females have\u00a0higher C:N ratios\u00a0(LeRoy et al. 2020). These patterns persist through time in the stream, providing in-stream invertebrates with variation in food resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting started on data analysis and paper writing around the fire at our field camp at Mount St. Helens in summer of 2018! Photo by Shannon\u00a0Claeson <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On long field trips, we get right to work analyzing data in the field. Our team consists of Evergreen faculty, Forest Service collaborators, and lots of invaluable undergraduate research assistants. Nothing better than data-analysis by the\u00a0fire-side!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our study made the cover of the issue in Ecosphere. This is a drone photo taken with a permit of willow colonization on the Pumice Plain. Photo by Carri LeRoy (Mavic 2 Pro) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Some of our research involves using drone technology to explore willow colonization patterns.\u00a0We were asked to contribute cover photos to the journal Ecosphere and one of our drone images made the cover! Follow along to learn more about the awesome,\u00a0NSF funded\u00a0work,\u00a0collaborative\u00a0student-faculty\u00a0research on\u00a0aquatic-terrestrial interactions in early successional headwater streams of Mount St. Helens!\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our National Science Foundation (NSF) grant provided funding for two full field seasons at Mount St. Helens. In the first year, we collected a dataset comparing the colonization patterns of willow males and females on the Pumice Plain\u00a0and published a paper in Ecosphere with four undergraduate co-authors\u00a0(LeRoy et al. 2020)!\u00a0 We found that the leaf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,9,7],"tags":[14,38,40,31,44,18,41,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}