{"id":1119,"date":"2015-02-26T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2015-02-26T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:59:01","slug":"new-postdoc-joins-the-mack-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"New Postdoc Joins the Mack Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Hewitt recently finished her PhD with Drs. Terry Chapin and Teresa Hollingsworth at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her dissertation investigated whether plant-fungal interactions after wildfire influenced seedling establishment at and beyond current treeline. She explored the effects of post-fire mycorrhizal community structure on the physiological performance of treeline seedlings and collaborated with the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning to investigate the landscape implications of her plot-level studies by implementing a mycorrhizal-submodel in simulations of tree migration using the fire-vegetation-climate model ALFRESCO. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Mack Lab at Northern Arizona University she will investigate the belowground plant traits and plant-fungal interactions that confer access to nitrogen released from thawed permafrost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Hewitt recently finished her PhD with Drs. Terry Chapin and Teresa Hollingsworth at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her dissertation investigated whether plant-fungal interactions after wildfire influenced seedling establishment at and beyond current treeline. She explored the effects of post-fire mycorrhizal community structure on the physiological performance of treeline seedlings and collaborated with the Scenarios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}