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Author: Alissa Brown

Alissa is a PhD student in the Plant Ecology Lab, where she sits in a dark room among piles of dead plants. Although this is her working environment, she is primarily interested in spatial patterns of tree seedlings living in the understories of forests. The spatial patterns, or distances between seedlings and adult trees, can tell us what kind of pressures affect the survival of young trees. In another life, Alissa would be an exobiologist working onboard a starship in another galaxy.

Blog / Avoiding the blank stare: workshop at UNC helps researchers communicate their work to the public

April 3, 2016 / Alissa Brown /

From graduate students to faculty members, scientific researchers generally receive training in writing technical documents. Usually these documents are intended to communicate findings to other scientists.

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Science Communication Series Scientific Communication Scientific Process SWAC Seminar

Blog / Four Bad Graphs, and How to be a Better “Citizen Statistician”

February 22, 2016October 7, 2019 / Alissa Brown /

Statistics. Ugh. Why force-feed such a dreary topic to countless innocent students across the globe? Well, statistics is actually an outrageously important field of study. People make graphs to summarize…

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Scientific Communication Scientific Process Statistics

Blog / Traveling trees: how fast can they migrate to track climate change?

December 17, 2015February 11, 2016 / Alissa Brown /

Most readers are probably familiar with some of the implications of climate change: sea level rise; more frequent extreme weather events; habitat loss for arctic species. Other implications are equally…

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Biology Environmental Science Not so Frivolous Science News Scientific Process

Blog / Underfoot, but not to be underrated: how tiny soil creatures influence survival, growth, and communication of plants

October 26, 2015February 16, 2016 / Alissa Brown /

Traditionally, plant ecologists seeking to better understand plant communities looked up (at light availability or precipitation patterns), across the landscape (at elevation or topography), and down (at leaf litter depth…

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Environmental Science Microbiology Weird Science

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