This last week was the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists’ Annual Conference at the University of Laval in Quebec City! Our lab members Qi, Emilie, Bridget, Siyu, Anchalya and Noelle went and all presented talks and posters in various sessions throughout the week. Bridget got an honourable mention for the President’s Award in recognition of …
The Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) awards the Graduate Student Award on a competitive basis to graduate students at the University of Toronto for projects that broaden the students’ research experience in a manner not possible within the scope of their current degree program. Congrats to Siyu on this excellent achievement ! With this …
This week marked our first venture this year into the field for the FastPheno project ! Collection of drone data as well as ground truthing hyperspectral data, fluorescence were done, as well as needle tissue sampled for pigment analysis. There was still snow on the ground but that didn’t stop us from completing measurements. This …
UTM was hit with a big snow storm today, which reminded us here at the lab that it is still winter, despite the higher than normal temperatures this year! The environmental signals used by trees to sense seasonality and trigger dormancy and development of cold acclimation, are the decrease in temperature and the length of …
Chris Wong will defend his PhD thesis on March 18, 2020. The public talk starts at 13:00 in DV3129. Chris Wong will defend his PhD thesis on March 18, 2020. The public talk with the title “Multiscale assessment of phenology and productivity of Northern forests” starts at 13:00 in DV3129. Hope to see many of …
Ariana Besik defended her Masters thesis today: Intraspecific Variation in Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Pigment Composition in White Spruce (Picea glauca): New Physiological Traits for Identifying Trees Better Adapted to New Climates. Congratulations, well done.
With the SpruceUp project the Ensminger lab is now involved in a second new large-scale collaborative research grant funded by Genome Canada
Chris and Ingo collaborated with colleagues from the University of North Carolina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of Barcelona, NASA and the U.S. Forest Service on a project aiming to assess phenology in conifers using remote sensing. On Monday their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Gamon JA, Huemmrich KF, Wong CYS, Ensminger I, Garrity S, Hollinger DY, Noormets A, Peñuelas J (2016) A remotely sensed pigment index reveals photosynthetic phenology in evergreen conifers PNAS 113, 1387-1392. doi:10.1073/pnas.1606162113
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/46/13087.full.pdf
