Sugaring
Dr. Joshua Rapp, former graduate student of Miles Silman in the WFU Department of Biology, has discovered a new predictor of maple sap flow: seed production the previous fall. The research paper was published in the journal Forest Ecology & Management, but if you love maple syrup you’ll want to jump immediately to the recent article in the New York Times that highlighted Josh’s work: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/
Josh, now a researcher at Tufts University, will continue this research in collaboration with another former Demon Deacon, Dave Lutz (now at Dartmouth). Dave was an undergraduate Biology major and a CEES/BIO postdoc.They recently received a grant from the Northeast Climate Science Center for further work on sugar maples.
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