[LTER-sbc_help] COVID-19 Community Messages Week 5

[Hubbard Brook Research Foundation]

 ‌ ‌ Familiar Faces Friday Enjoy these short virtual updates from Hubbard Brook. Alex Young and Dan Hong celebrating Dan's birthday last week. Alex Young SUNY-ESF alum Hello Hubbard Brook!  I hope this message finds you well. I graduated with a MS from SUNY ESF in 2019. I'm fortunate to have started a full time job with an agricultural drone company dispensing pollen during bloom, in NY we're focusing on this special variety of apple called SweeTango. I was able to work from home before the shutdown, and am lucky to be able to spend a couple days this spring out at apple orchards in the Great Lakes region. Bloom is just about two weeks away! I live in Syracuse with three ESF graduate students, one of whom you know well: Dan Hong (who just defended his thesis last semester, woo!). The Yanai lab has had a string of birthdays recently—this picture is from Dan's birthday last week on a snowy spring day. We both have some exciting results to share soon from the MELNHE project.  Wishing everyone well during these times,  Alex Scott Bailey in his home office. Scott Bailey US Forest Service Lead Scientist, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest Hello Hubbard Brookers, I am fortunate to have such a nice home and neighborhood to be sequestered in and think of those who are more impacted by stay at home orders. But as a field scientist who is stationed at one of his primary study sites, I am finding how much I rely on mixing fieldwork with lab work and writing. It seems like some of my most creative writing, and most constructive discussions with colleagues, happen when I am mulling over something while hiking in the watersheds or digging a soil pit. Losing that mixture is a handicap. In order to stay in touch with the forest the best I can, I brought my microscope home, something I don’t always have time to exercise in the lab, and have been catching up with studies of soil and rock thin sections. Having cancelled a planned trip to UMass to work on an electron microprobe, I was able to devise an analytical plan and make microphotographs before mailing samples to take advantage of a generous “essential” colleague who agreed to run the machine for me. So I am getting some things done, but not necessarily as efficiently, or with the same priority, as I would have if I had been at work.   While I am sequestered in my cubby off of our bedroom, Rosa “attends” UNH at the dining room table and Amey has commandeered Savannah’s room as her office. We can have three Zoom meetings going on at once without having to wear headphones and amazingly our internet is mostly able to handle it. I hope you are coping as well and look forward to seeing you all with hiking boots, sharpshooter shovels, etc. soon. —Scott Half-day old lamb c/o Amey and Scott Bailey "Baaa! I am one of nine new lambs born to the Baileys' sheep this spring. Here I am enjoying the sunshine on my first day of life." —As told to Clara Chaisson The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to supporting the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study. Hubbard Brook Research Foundation | 30 Pleasant St., Woodstock, VT 05091 Unsubscribe sbc_help at lternet.edu Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by sciencelinks at hubbardbrookfoundation.org in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!
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