Dr. Kara Costanza

Forest Pathologist and Dendrochronologist, studying forest health and tree responses to disturbance. Fueled by coffee. Views my own.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

After studying ash for years, these trees are still my fall favorites! Some of the last to leaf out in spring, and some of the first to change color in the fall. #FraxinusAmericana #FallFoliage

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

@amandaacardoso1 If you're still looking for talks, I could speak on balsam for response to pathogens and climate in eastern North America.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

So excited to share that Yinuo successfully defended her MF research this morning, on #WhatsKillingFir in New Brunswick. Very proud of her presentation and success! Congratulations!! #MF #UNB #ForestHealth #Dendro 🌲💍

[Dr. Karen Kelsky 🏳️‍🌈 Pro-Palestine Anti-Z ✡️ @ProfessorIsIn]

Please don't comment how "warm" is actually a great thing to say about a candidate "regardless of gender." Nothing wrong with being warm (or helpful, caring, etc.); being warm/caring/helpful is great! The issue is the opportunity costs of stating it within a reference letter.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

Past year = new job, new state, and new responsibilities. I enjoy what I do, but really miss teaching. I recently served as an instructor in a #ContinuingEd program, and was told "the plant disease section was FASCINATING!" #PlantDisease and #AltAc teaching for the win!

[Henry Adams @EnvEcoLab]

PhD student position in forest management and bark beetle defense in my lab at WA State U! Use tree-ring resin duct metrics to quantify defense over the life of trees to explore tradeoffs with growth. Focus on SE loblolly pine, also work in NW,SW forests https://t.co/seRXLAaHLj

[Women in Wood @women_in_wood]

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[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

@chrismgentry Thanks Chris!!

[Dr. Denita Hadziabdic Guerry @TreeHealthDoc]

Please share our Special Topic focusing on #Forest #Pathology in #Changing #Climate. @richamelin @j_e_stewart @LabVillari @kasson_wvu, and @TreeHealthDoc are your topic editors. Abstract submission is until Jan 14-2021. Please RT. #foresthealth
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[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

@kiramhoffman @BLCoulthard @treeringsociety @DisturbedDendro @tswetnam @jillharvey_fire @epispheric @LoriDanielsUBC A recent grad student in my lab used MtreeRing. It worked well on easy cores and had great potential. But for more difficult cores (multiple breaks, twisted, rings not perpendicular to mount) we had to switch to CDendro/CooRecorder to use multiple paths. Happy to discuss more.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

This fall we've been a little (or a lot) homesick for New England and Atlantic Canada. It's not Maine #FallFoliage, but Montana's trying hard to impress us! #WesternLarch #ConiferForests of the West.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

@ForestPathology @forestmycology @kasson_wvu @drdavecoyle @LabVillari @zazoolka Love all of the forest pathology masks! I made my own a few months ago:

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

As a woman who participated in a very supportive women's group during grad school, I can definitely say that these friendships and support from fellow women in academia were critical to my continuation and success. So excited to see more research into this concept!

[Courtney S. @SiegertHydroLab]

I'm still searching for a PhD student to study forest restoration effects on water quality and soil health to start in January 2021! #ForestTwitter

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

Great day in the field yesterday finding some #WesternTreeDiseases. Love the diversity in appearance of these #PhaeolusSchweinitzii fruiting bodies!

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

This figure describes academia so well.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

@CMacQuar @foresterlacey Great suggestion, SFM certainly presents like this! Needles turn bright red and the tree dies within in a single growing season. Because it happens so rapidly, needles are usually retained for 1-2 years.

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

Had the opportunity to see my first cone cutter in action this week. It may be a pretty simple tool (old butcher knife screwed into a chopping block), but it would have been a huge help when I taught Plant Structure and Development! #PlantBiology #PinusPonderosa

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

When I can't be out in the field, I can still search the neighborhood for #PlantDiseases. Found some great #BacterialCanker on #Cherry this afternoon. Spring's the perfect time to find it, when fresh gumming occurs! #WFH #Pseudomonas

[Dr. Kara Costanza @ForHealthDendro]

Really proud of Wushuang, an #MF student at #UNB. She just successfully published her first manuscript on #RedSpruce provenance trials! #PiceaRubens #ClimateChange

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