Tag: Isabella Goodman

Vegetative and Climatic Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production and Radiation Use Efficiency Along a North to South Transect in the Western Great Plains – Isabella Goodman

Posted on by Josh Blake

Isabella is studying seven sites along a latitudinal gradient spanning nearly 1,800 miles from Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Marfa, Texas. She is using an ecosystem water balance model to estimate soil moisture to be used in linear models to determine the climatic vs. vegetative controls of radiation use efficiency along the latitudinal gradient in the Read more about Vegetative and Climatic Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production and Radiation Use Efficiency Along a North to South Transect in the Western Great Plains – Isabella Goodman[…]

Some Favorites from a Summer in the Field – Isabella Goodman

Posted on by Josh Blake

This past summer I drove from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Marfa, Texas. This wasn’t your typical summer road trip. This was a field work campaign where we sampled herbaceous biomass (grasses and forbs) and collected soil samples to estimate aboveground net primary production and radiation use efficiency along a latitudinal temperature gradient.    During this field Read more about Some Favorites from a Summer in the Field – Isabella Goodman[…]

The kindness of strangers in the remote open prairies—Isabella Goodman

Posted on by Madeline Gupta

The northern great plains aren’t the most social space, they aren’t your typical eco-tourism destination, and the vast endless wide-open space doesn’t necessarily cultivate a lot of human-to-human interactions. We sometimes go hours without seeing another car.  This became apparent at the first site of my field work campaign. I am driving from southern Saskatchewan Read more about The kindness of strangers in the remote open prairies—Isabella Goodman[…]

Radiation Use Efficiency in the Western Great Plains

Posted on by Madeline Gupta

Aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in drylands is often estimated using the Monteith Model. This model relies on an estimation of radiation use efficiency (RUE), which is the amount of dry matter produced per unit of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation. While ANPP trends are well studied, RUE remains less explored, particularly regarding the role of Read more about Radiation Use Efficiency in the Western Great Plains[…]