Erin Eichenberger 🌱

PhD candidate in Dept. of Applied Ecology at NCSU 🌱 Plant and pollination ecology 🌱 she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

I'm Erin (she/her) and I'm a queer ecologist. I study fragmented ecosystems to understand how plants and pollinators are getting along. I love making art and learning about really old creatures and cultures. Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay !

[NC Botanical Garden @NCBotGarden]

FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia is available now on iOS and Android devices! This plant identification and discovery app from the UNC Herbarium (NCU) and the North Carolina Botanical Garden covers every wild-growing plant species in NC, SC, & GA.

https://t.co/uwYCZCcUum

[Southeast CASC @se_casc]

🚨 Happening tomorrow! Join us at 10AM ET for “Southeastern Plants Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need,” with our partners at SECAS and @AtlBotanical! Register here: https://t.co/PZmIwtvUGA

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

YES!!! My alma mater! I’m so proud of you guys! #VirginiaElection

[Echinacea Project @TeamEchinacea]

We have a new paper out in @PNASNews! This 6-year study across remnant prairies in Minnesota investigates fire’s role in plant reproduction. Have you wondered how small & large plant populations respond to fire? Read our paper to find out! More info here: https://t.co/bRqFWp9xM8

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

But what if we DID publish diagnoses with beautiful rhythm and scansion... Short & George are giving me devilish side-project ideas involving my long-neglected Latin primers

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

Thanks so much, y'all! I never would have imagined just how much use I get out of my Echinacea Project T-shirt (or the enormous wealth of Echinacea Project-imparted wisdom!)

[Echinacea Project @TeamEchinacea]

It's great to see @egeichenberger continue her excellent work on Echinacea laevigata. Happy to feel that this rare species is in good hands.

[The Garden Club of America Scholarships @GCAScholarships]

Congrats to GCA '23 #ConservationHorticulure Fellow Erin Eichenberger @egeichenberger at @NCStateAEC! She is investigating population vital rates & pollinators of the rare southeastern Echinacea laevigata to improve management recommendations.
Learn More: https://t.co/buklKajgzn

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

After almost passing out fishing samples out of an oven and in the process of double-checking that my perfectly organized samples were still perfect, I de-organized them by fumbling with my splinted hand (a repetitive stress injury from wrangling these samples the last two weeks)

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

...has this message always been so alarmist or is twitter reacting to its own implosion...?

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

My dear friends, Spirit and Opportunity! I was so excited for the launches when I was a kid. It's weird to think that I'm older than them, since I looked up to them so much (as much as a kid can admire machines.) Happy 20th, y'all!!

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

Twenty years ago tonight, Opportunity began its Mars journey, joining its twin Spirit, already en route a month earlier. The pair went on to find evidence of Mars' wetter past and paved the way for the type of overland exploration @NASAPersevere and @MarsCuriosity do to this day.

[New New York Times @NYT_first_said]

bahhh

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

It's been ages since this plate went up for a vote! So long that I brought it up during my graduate school interviews with someone in my (prospective) lab who studied flytraps, and now they've defended their dissertation and I'm a candidate! Open the trap, free the plates!

[triangleblogblog @triblogblog]

Based on our web traffic this week, we are no longer covering civics and will only be covering the venus fly trap license plate. https://t.co/L7lCd3EBAY

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

@vamerygonzalez You got this!!! Or maybe you already got it and it was great!! 😀😀

[NC Botanical Garden @NCBotGarden]

We're thrilled to announce the release of FloraQuest: Northern Tier, a new plant identification and discovery app covering over 5,800 vascular plants in the northern part of the Flora of the Southeastern U.S.

Learn more and download the app: https://t.co/92gdowVch2

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

Wow!!

[NC Air Quality Forecast @NCDAQ_Forecast]

URGENT (4:42PM FRIDAY 4/21/2023): UNHEALTHY TO HAZARDOUS AIR QUALITY LIKELY OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH TOMORROW OWING TO SMOKE FROM GREAT LAKE FIRE.
#ncwx #airquality #AQI

This a developing situation, please see our forecast discussion: https://t.co/A4ceI2rdBO

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

If I could take a month off every year to do nothing but nap in a lawn chair the issue would be pretty much nullified, but unfortunately life doesn't tend to shake out that way 🌞

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

Each spring for the last few years has been an all-out war between my seasonally-affected need to soak up the sun's warmth, and my debilitating tree pollen allergies that manifest primarily as overwhelming fatigue. My physiology is large, contains multitudes, etc

[Alice Dabrowski @syrphlarv]

The personality that comes through in these early papers has me cackling 😂

[Erin Eichenberger 🌱 @egeichenberger]

@RadinAllie 😂😭 Conferences should have an Olympic games aspect and Team Ech would sweep meter estimation every time