Christine Sierra O'Connell, PhD
@csoconn
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I'm an ecosystem ecologist studying changing tropical forests! #LatinxInSTEM. 🙌 Assistant Professor of Biology @Chapman, she/her/ella; not active on Twitter
Joined July 2012
After five incredibly happy years at Macalester, I recently moved to Chapman University. I am incredibly grateful to Macalester for my time there, and I am the scientist and person I am today because of the wonderful mentorship and inspiring student, staff and faculty community!.
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Meanwhile, I have not posted on Twitter in several years, and am going to continue to be inactive on this platform. I have a profile under the same username at Bluesky and may be slightly more active there. But I am updating my affiliation above.
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But I'm excited to be back in California, working at a university that is aiming to achieve Hispanic-Serving Institution status in the coming years, and that is ambitious about DEI goals. I'm also hiring postdocs in ecosystem science and am excited for new collaborations in CA!.
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Poking my head up during sabbatical to (very late on) highlight a neat paper I collaborated on and led by Maya Almaraz (not on Twitter), with @whendeesilver @lesterlin @StephenPorder @PeterGroffman. Yay!.
Nitrogen changes from insulating greenhouse gas forms to inert forms called dinitrogen as it moves between soil, air, and life. Scientists now have discovered that soils emit more nitrogen in its inert form than previously thought.
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RT @alan_knapp: For those interested in comparing ecosystem responses to drought across sites that differ in climate/productivity. this a….
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We propose a complementary approach with absolute and relative indices to estimate sensitivity that complement each other to inform how ecosystems will respond to drought. One of the relative...
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RT @EricHolthaus: Hurricane #Fiona isn't Hurricane Maria. In terms of rainfall and flooding for Puerto Rico, it may even be worse. Alread….
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RT @angelicaserran0: “At least Fiona isn't like Hurricane MarĂa.” Puerto Rico was left without electricity. Thousands still live in damaged….
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RT @moisturizednerd: if you want to support Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of hurricane Fiona DIRECTLY:. here's a thread of local organizat….
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RT @stellarissolxr: I want to remind everyone especially in the US that Hurricane Fiona has also made landfall in the Dominican Republic as….
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RT @Tana_TropicsGal: And it only took a newly formed Cat 1 Hurricane!!! Nothing near Maria. Zero lessons learned it seems.
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Whooooooo!!! Legend of the game!!.
Congrats to Erika MarĂn-Spiotta, professor @UWMadisonGeog, who was elected as an ESA Fellow for advancing knowledge of soil carbon stability and its response to land use change, and for serving as a global leader. Thanks for your important work @emsaurios! #ESA2022 🥳
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RT @ESA_org: Congrats to Erika MarĂn-Spiotta, professor @UWMadisonGeog, who was elected as an ESA Fellow for advancing knowledge of soil ca….
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RT @travisdrake: New paper led by Marijn Bauters shows that Ca (and not N or P) is likely limiting secondary forest growth in Congo: .https….
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Biogeochemical analysis of a chronosequence of secondary forest succession in lowland Central Africa suggests that calcium becomes an increasingly scarce and...
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RT @eco_pelle: Considering how soil C is associated with minerals? Check out this amazing global analysis by @GeorgiouKat and co-authors fo….
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Nature Communications - Mineral-organic associations play a key role in soil carbon preservation. Here, Georgiou et al. produce global estimates of mineral-associated soil carbon, providing insight...
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RT @neilgcurrie: Ever wondered how to manipulate big data with R? . A thread on using Spark in R👇🧵. #rstats #spark #datascience.
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RT @alan_knapp: Drought can leave long-lasting legacies belowground. until a wet year resets the system. Roots are so dynamic. Repeated….
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Global climate change is expected to cause more frequent extreme droughts in many parts of the world. Despite the crucial role of roots in water acquisition and plant survival, our understanding of...
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I know I just tweeted about a new paper, but really what's on my mind is yesterday's horrible school shooting, my fury over the lack of gun control in America, and my grief regarding the two-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder. Just a terrible week.
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