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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font size="2">Please join us tomorrow for our speaker, Suzanne Pierre, a PhD candidate at Cornell University. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="2">Suzanne Pierre<u></u><u></u></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="2">Cornell University<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="2">Mean annual temperature shapes N cycling and fine root nutrient foraging across a Hawaiian tropical elevation gradient<u></u><u></u></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" style="text-indent:0in"><b><span style="line-height:115%">Abstract</span></b><span style="line-height:115%">: Increasing mean annual temperature (MAT) due to global climate change
has been shown to drive carbon (C) cycling and primary production in a range of forest ecosystems. The mechanisms underlying this relationship are not well resolved, but are likely related to changes in belowground resource availability and forest nutrient
limitation. We examined potential mechanisms across a 5.2°C tropical montane wet forest elevation/MAT gradient on the island of Hawaii. Our results suggest that nitrifier communities respond to increasing MAT in ways which increase N bioavailability, and potentially
lead to increased phosphorus demand at higher MAT.</span></font><span style="text-indent:0in;font-size:small"> </span></p>
<p class="m_6514884233461304127Paragraph" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b>Biography</b>: Suzanne studies how changing environmental conditions affect the cycling and availability of nutrients to
terrestrial plant communities, and aims to understand how these nutrient dynamics feedback to the fates of terrestrial carbon. She currently focus on how temperature affects microbial-community and ecosystem nitrogen and carbon dynamics across natural environmental
gradients. Please visit <a href="http://www.suzannepierre.com" target="_blank">www.suzannepierre.com</a> to get more information about Suzanne and her research.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small">When: Oct. 5</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size:small">,</span><sup>
</sup><span style="font-size:small">Thursday, 12pm – 1pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Where: SE2-302 <u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Coffee will be provided and please bring your own mugs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">We look forward to seeing you,<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Organizers for 2017-18: Nate Bogie and Lixia Jin<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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