Valerie was interviewed this week about the California wildfires for a piece in Mashable.

Valerie was interviewed by National Geographic about this summer's heatwaves and wildfires in Europe:

Congrats to Shuzo Oita! Shuzo is a PhD student in Betsy Arnold's lab (UA Plant Sciences) who spent a few months in the Trouet Lab in 2017 to cross date tree rings in black spruce (Picea Mariana) from Quebec. He then linked his tree-ring based estimates of tree age and biomass to differing endophytic fungi communities. His poster won the coveted New Phytologist poster prize at the International Symbiosis Society (ISS) conference in Oregon. Extremely well deserved!

Valerie will be presenting new work in a plenary lecture at the AMQUA/CANQUA meeting in Ottawa this week: https://www.quaternary2018.com/. She will talk about our upcoming paper: "Northern Hemisphere tropical belt movements over the last 800 years". Her talk is on Thursday Aug 9 at 8.30am in room 2200 in Richcroft Hall (Carleton University)