Facilitating Novel Research through Creative Collaboration Link Here.

To understand how forests respond to the more frequent and severe droughts across Canada, our lab is leading the ThiRST (Thinning to Reduce Stress) experiment. Congrats to Chloe Larstone Hunt for publishing this Extension Note on the challenges of leading such a large scale outdoor experiment! Link Here.

The PhD candidate will monitor the early response of warm-adapted forest tree populations planted in colder sites ranging across northern US and eastern Canada as part of the TransX project and develop new guidelines to help move assisted migration strategies into successful operations. More details on the position here, and on TransX here. If you're interested to apply, send a cover letter, a transcript and a complete CV to loic.dorangeville@unb.ca.

Second AGM took place at the Oak Island Resort & the Conference Centre on the Western Shore of Novascotia. It aimed to foster exchange of knowledge, collaborative discussions and exploration of parts of the Acadian Forest. Loic, Jacob and Chloe were present from the D' Orangeville Lab! Read the summary report here Silva21 AGM 2023

Rani holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of New Brunswick (2018-2023) and an Integrated Masters in Biological Sciences from Bangalore University (India). Rani will help coordinate the establishment of the TransX project and provide scientific and logistic support to the students in the lab. Welcome Rani! You can check out her profile here.

Amazing. Storm Robinson wins 1st place, Susan Willis wins 2nd. And kudos to grad student Melissa Spearing for giving an oral presentation on her work at the National Tree Seed Center and how the NTSC helps research projects like the TransX project.

Two new papers published in Biosciences and Global Change Biology!  The GCB paper is a collaboration with research scientists from Quebec, led by NRCan scientists Yan Boulanger and Jesus Pascual, where we compare model projections for the Quebec forest. Link here!

The Biosciences paper is a collaboration with US scientists, led by Kim Novick from Indiana University, where we combine a variety of data streams to better understand the decline of oak in eastern temperate forests. Link here!

Full article can be found here.

Congratulations Martina. Martina is off in France, with a prestigious Marie-Curie scholarship. Good luck! The online, unformatted proof can be found here

Loïc D'Orangeville presented a talk about climate change and Canadian forests during a session about drought impact, where Jiejie Wang's model results were presented for the first time. Details on the conference can be found here

In this paper, we develop new growth models using North America's permanent sample plot data and project future growth of the Canadian boreal forest under climate change. Congrats Jiejie! Full article can be found here. Also, UNB is featuring Jiejie's research in UNB Research's blog here and in EOS here.

Could 80,000 family woodlot owners be the key to saving the Acadian forest? Only remnants of this carbon-rich forest in the Maritimes remain after centuries of clear-cutting. Thousands of family forest owners have a stake in its survival. The question is: can they earn revenue from its protection rather than its destruction?

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In these informational videos, researchers, ecologists and forestry professionals were consulted to understand how the changing climate will affect New Brunswick’s forests, and how we can manage our forests for climate resilience. Produced by the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners, in partnership with Community Forests International and with the support of Environment and Natural Resources in Canada. Access the video here!

We're now accepting applications from qualified candidates for a 2-year, fully funded Masters of Science in Forestry position focused on process-based modeling of forest landscapes in P.E.I. National Parks under climate change and forest management. This is a joint project between the Canadian Forest Service, Parks Canada, and the University of New Brunswick led by Dr. Anthony R. Taylor and myself. Details here.

Martina will look into the effects of interacting disturbances, namely water deficit and insect outbreaks, on boreal forest dynamics across Canada. Martina is developing new methodological approaches to detect forest resistance and resilience using national forest inventories. Welcome to the lab Martina! Full bio here.

Jessé will apply dendrochronology approaches to 50-yr-old provenance trials from New Brunswick to study population variations in climate responses. This knowledge will help us compare the capacity of Acadian species for assisted migration in a climate change context. Welcome Jessé! Full bio here.

This documentary was produced by Gaetan Pelletier, Executive Director of NHRI, and directed by Mathieu Germain with the assistance of Tanguy Locqueneux. The video documentary delves into the subject of climate change, its potential effects on our forests and what can, and should, be done to adapt. CLick HERE for full documentary!

Alex is a MSc student based in Montreal and co-supervised by Dan Kneeshaw (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Loïc D'Orangeville here at UNB. Her MSc project focuses on boreal balsam fir stand responses to drought and the roles of timing, tree size and competition. Full bio here.

This work was lead by colleague Xianliang Zhang, of Hebei Agricultural Unviersity (China), during his stay at Harvard Forest. Results suggest that the warming-driven earlier growth onset allows trees to take advantage of snowmelt water, leading to massive gains in recent growth. Paper can be found here.

At the North American Forest Ecology Workshop, in Flagstaff (Arizona), Loïc D'Orangeville presented his results on the phenology of stem growth for 15 different tree species from Harvard Forest (MA). A great meeting held in the middle of the Ponderosa pine forest!

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Jiejie was awarded a four-year scholarship from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. A nice way to start a PhD!

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The Workshop Proceedings that summarizes the meeting presentations and discussions on Understanding Northern Latitude Vegetation Greening and Browning has just been released. The announcement is below and the report is available for free download here

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Megan will be our new lab manager for the 2019 field season. She will supervise the installation of new monitoring plots and help revisit old provenance studies at Acadia Research Forest. She will also help set up the wood analysis lab here in the Faculty. Her bio can be found here.

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The anticipated rise in temperatures is likely to upset the growth of the Quebec forest. We presents results from our lab where the vulnerability of Eastern Canadian forests is documented by analyzing their response to past climate. 

Meeting details here

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Our research has been selected as one of 10 Discoveries of the Year 2018 by Québec Science magazine. In this paper, done in collaboration with colleagues from Québec and the US, we used large tree-ring collections to project the effects that climate change on Eastern Canada’s boreal forest.

Read the story here

Access to full scientific paper here

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Loïc D'Orangeville attended a NSERC-sponsored worshop organized by the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre and FPInnovations to coordinate a national research initiative to support the resilience and transition of Canadian forests in the face of global changes to meet the need for sustainable fibre. Representatives of each Canadian province, of major forest industry players and academia discussed during two days the research priorities, potential partners and future directions. 

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Loïc D'Orangeville presented the research done in the lab to representatives of the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry (NSLF) during a workshop on Vegetation Management organised by NSLF and FPInnovation. The goal of the workshop was to better understand the research needs of the province following the release of the Lahey report. 

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Loïc D'Orangeville attended this two-day workshop hosted by Canada and the US National Academies of Science. The goad was to bring together experts to discuss patterns and drivers of tundra and boreal forest vegetation productivity; methods and tools for evaluating vegetation patterns and changes; and implications for vegetation change. Great meeting, and special thanks to Canada's Polar Research Board for the invitation!

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