<div dir="ltr">Good evening SEHE colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Our department is hosting Joy <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Winbourne, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">assistant professor from UMass Lowell, and I thought her work may be of great interest to some of you. There are still 30-min <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ud2z1OAh41o4KgG722fLrltyfILjY7ALZ1xmwDji3M/edit?usp=sharing">available slots</a> at 9:35am and 11:05 am if you'd like to chat with her!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The full description is below, but here are some highlights: </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">"<b>Urban food forests</b> are a type of green infrastructure increasingly being proposed in cities because of their potential ability to address the environmental, social, and economic concerns facing urban dwellers...</span>This presentation will introduce three research initiatives underway <b>advancing understanding and implementation of nature-based solutions</b>: 1) I will introduce a new Climate Resilience Center at UML; 2) a new global Urban Tree Ecophysiology Network; and 3) Ecosystem Service provisioning of urban food forests in New England."</div><div><br></div><div>Please share with your students!</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>sam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lindsay McCulloch via Envisci-faculty</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:envisci-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">envisci-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Envisci-faculty] Seminar speaker March 4th, 2026<br>To: Envisci-faculty <<a href="mailto:envisci-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">envisci-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3945924534223157653gmail-:m39" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:331px" aria-controls=":13x1" aria-expanded="false">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>Just a reminder to sign up to meet with our seminar speaker this week, Dr. Joy WInbourne. I know folks are very busy with the end of the quarter and our recruitment but if you can find time - Joy does a lot of great work on urban ecology, plant physiology, nature-based solutions and biogeochemistry, that may be of interest to you all. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ud2z1OAh41o4KgG722fLrltyfILjY7ALZ1xmwDji3M/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ud2z1OAh41o4KgG722fLrltyfILjY7ALZ1xmwDji3M/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Lindsay</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract</b>: In urban areas, green infrastructure is well recognized for the suite of ecosystem services they provide to society, including uptake and retention of atmospheric carbon dioxide, mitigation of stormwater and nutrient pollution, and cooling of local air temperatures. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban dwellers are also seeking green spaces for food security, connection, and solace. Urban food forests are a type of green infrastructure increasingly being proposed in cities because of their potential ability to address the environmental, social, and economic concerns facing urban dwellers. The influence trees have on urban climates and cycling of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, depend on the biophysical responses of urban vegetation to the unique environmental conditions of the built environment. The heterogeneous nature of urban landscapes, unique vegetation assemblages, and land management decisions make it difficult to predict the spatial and temporal variability in the ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation. This presentation will introduce three research initiatives underway advancing understanding and implementation of nature-based solutions: 1) I will introduce a new Climate Resilience Center at UML; 2) a new global Urban Tree Ecophysiology Network; and 3) Ecosystem Service provisioning of urban food forests in New England. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio</b>: Joy Winbourne an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at UMass Lowell. Dr. Winbourne is an ecosystem ecologist and terrestrial biogeochemist. Her research is focused on understanding how plants and soils regulate the movement of carbon, nutrients, and water in terrestrial ecosystems under a variety of human perturbations. In particular, she examines the impact of urbanization, deforestation, forest fragmentation, and climate change on terrestrial ecosystem processes. Her research agenda is motivated by the need for actionable ecological data and theory to inform sustainable environmental policies and evaluate their efficacy especially in the context of global climate change. To address these research aims, Dr. Winbourne integrates field studies, remote sensing, meta-analyses, and modeling approaches to scale ecosystem processes at the individual soil core or tree to landscape scales to uncover trends in key services ecosystems provide human societies. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Winbourne was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University and Voss Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Environment and Society at Brown University. She holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.</font></p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 3:22 PM Lindsay McCulloch <<a href="mailto:lindsay.mcculloch1@ucr.edu" target="_blank">lindsay.mcculloch1@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, happy Friday!<div><br></div><div>The link to meet with our next seminar speaker, Dr. Joy Winbourne, can be found here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ud2z1OAh41o4KgG722fLrltyfILjY7ALZ1xmwDji3M/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ud2z1OAh41o4KgG722fLrltyfILjY7ALZ1xmwDji3M/edit?usp=sharing </a></div><div><br></div><div>I have attached the PDF of her flyer here to this email. Joy does a lot of great work on urban vegetation ecology and biogeochemistry. She is also one of my collaborators that I hope to work with to bring sap flow sensors here to Riverside that we can use in classrooms/labs and capstone projects.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div>Lindsay</div><div><br></div>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract</b>: In urban areas, green infrastructure is well recognized for the suite of ecosystem services they provide to society, including uptake and retention of atmospheric carbon dioxide, mitigation of stormwater and nutrient pollution, and cooling of local air temperatures. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban dwellers are also seeking green spaces for food security, connection, and solace. Urban food forests are a type of green infrastructure increasingly being proposed in cities because of their potential ability to address the environmental, social, and economic concerns facing urban dwellers. The influence trees have on urban climates and cycling of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, depend on the biophysical responses of urban vegetation to the unique environmental conditions of the built environment. The heterogeneous nature of urban landscapes, unique vegetation assemblages, and land management decisions make it difficult to predict the spatial and temporal variability in the ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation. This presentation will introduce three research initiatives underway advancing understanding and implementation of nature-based solutions: 1) I will introduce a new Climate Resilience Center at UML; 2) a new global Urban Tree Ecophysiology Network; and 3) Ecosystem Service provisioning of urban food forests in New England.<span> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio</b>: Joy Winbourne an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at UMass Lowell. Dr. Winbourne is an ecosystem ecologist and terrestrial biogeochemist. Her research is focused on understanding how plants and soils regulate the movement of carbon, nutrients, and water in terrestrial ecosystems under a variety of human perturbations. In particular, she examines the impact of urbanization, deforestation, forest fragmentation, and climate change on terrestrial ecosystem processes. Her research agenda is motivated by the need for actionable ecological data and theory to inform sustainable environmental policies and evaluate their efficacy especially in the context of global climate change. To address these research aims, Dr. Winbourne integrates field studies, remote sensing, meta-analyses, and modeling approaches to scale ecosystem processes at the individual soil core or tree to landscape scales to uncover trends in key services ecosystems provide human societies. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Winbourne was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University and Voss Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Environment and Society at Brown University. She holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.</font></p></div>
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