Sybil Gotsch PhD

PI- Forest Ecophysiology Lab, Climber, Hiker, Daydreamer 🌈 Associate Professor, Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Kentucky

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

University of Kentucky scientist trying to solve state’s white oak mystery https://t.co/HbtcM7As6N

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@FlinnLab @BaldwinWallace @clevemetroparks congratulations!

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

In 2022, we began a project with an ambitious goal- simulate the effects of climate change in the cloud forest by removing epiphytes from entire trees. I am so excited to see this, our first product, in print! It sure took a village!

https://t.co/jcuCbdAyHX

@UKAgriculture

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

My students in Tree Biology are learning about wood structure and function. This white oak core shows large, early-season vessels that move more water when it is abundant and late-season vessels (tiny) that move less water but withstand drought.

@UKAgriculture #forestry

[Amy McDermott @amygmcdermott]

Join me on an expedition into the #CloudForest, to unpack research on the delicate plants carpeting the canopy. They're canaries in the coal mine of #ClimateChange and may hold clues for impending change to the forest water cycle. @pulitzercenter @PNASNews https://t.co/qVmHBVbks5

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@vogel_erin Thanks Erin!!

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@PaulaAMoralesM1 Thank you!

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

It was great to participate in this multimedia project for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! The cloud forest is a critical ecosystem for hydrology and biodiversity but doesn't nearly get the press it deserves.

@UKAgriculture @NSF

https://t.co/UR1eCrBLKy

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UK's Forest Ecophysiology Lab is representing at the North American Forest Ecology Workshop. I am so proud of these ladies on their first conference presentations! They both knocked it out of the park!

@ukyfnr @ukagriculture
https://t.co/q45Qpl9P7i

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

Our reseach was just featured on a French TV

https://t.co/H3eDGxxx2D

Thanks to the landowners, the arborist supply companies and the National Science Foundation for supporting this research!
@ukyfnr @ukagriculture @teufelbergertreecare @fincatierraviva @eltigrewaterfalls

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

After a year and four months of discussions, prepping, collecting pilot data, and constructing preliminary models, I am happy to say, proposal submitted! Fingers crossed. Back to the trees.

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

Dawn in the cloud forest. I am in Monteverde, Costa Rica, for a couple of weeks to work with my field team and support two film crews that will be documenting our research project. Stay tuned! @ukyfnr @UKAgriculture #forestry #canopyscience #climatechangeresearch

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

These fog gauges are up at the top of our study trees and will help us understand how morning fog frequency changes across the Central Appalachian landscape. @ukagriculture @teufelbergertreecare #teufelbergerambassador #teufelbergerscienceambassador
https://t.co/zMLh7g17M1

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@Prof_Van_Stan @merypoca @SpringerNature Congratulations John!

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@K_J_Davidson @NatureCareers @AmericanForests Great article. Nice work Ken!!

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

I am extremely honored to be named one of @teufelbergertreecare 's first science ambassadors! For more info about the program, please check out the link below!

https://t.co/kFdk10F4dy

#arborist #arboriculture #womeninforestry #canopyscience @wesspur_tree @ukyfnr @ukagriculture

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

@jess_g_murray Way to go Jess!!! I will try to make it!

[Ellen Crocker @evcrocker]

Job alert- Biological Science Technician position is open with the Forest Service doing forest pathology, based right here at U Kentucky! Work with Dr. Tyler Dreaden & the Forest Health Research Education Center (& me!) on a range of exciting projects https://t.co/tU2Lg71T6Z

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

Fog trials on Appalachian seedlings are about to begin!
@UKAgriculture

[Sybil Gotsch PhD @GotschSybil]

And now we have begun a photosynthesis campaign. So curious to see how these cloud forest trees will respond to the loss of epiphytes. Check out the climber in the upper left. @UKAgriculture