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On the news! Research site featured on Kare11 News Extra!

8/8/2019

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I was on the news! The experimental forest where I work in north MN (Anishinaabe land) was highlighted by Kare11 News. They visited me at my field sites! Quite a surprise! I feel very grateful and excited! The video/article focus on changes facing northern Minnesota under climate change. My field site is at the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) experiment, exploring different forest management strategies to support future forests. My own work centers on drought and stress responses, and whether these management strategies are helping to reduce seedling stress.

Check out the ASCC experiment, my sites and forest science at Kare11 News here: “Climate may change MN’s iconic north woods.”


Important context: 
1) The report/video emphasizes the “iconic MN northwoods” and fails to acknowledge that this is Indigenous Land and Aninisinaabe Land, specifically Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. When the reporter interviewed me, I told them this many times but it was not included. Please when you think of this area, its past and its future, remember that it is Indigenous Land and home since time immemorial to Native Nations. Climate change and forest management must acknowledge and respect Tribal sovereignty, wishes, knowledge, and goals (which is also the aim of my work).
2) The report frames the ASCC experiment from the angle of its most dramatic “transition” treatment. However, the goal of ASCC is to explore many possible directions for supporting future forests. The somewhat controversial idea of “assisted migration” is only one of four strategies being explored.
3) Please respect and care for the land. I have seen responses that deny climate change, and this continues to be saddening. To that, I will say that when asked why I do the work that I do, my reply is that I have a responsibility. So please, in what ways you can, remember your responsibility to this beautiful world.
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Fellows Highlight by Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center!

8/8/2019

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Hello all! I've been hard at work in the forest for most of the spring/summer thus far. So I am far behind in updating. But I am excited to say that last month I was highlighted by the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC), where I am a Graduate Fellow. Please take a look! Thank you so much!
https://necsc.umass.edu/news/fellows-highlight-jamie-mosel-1
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Climate Change, Forest Management, and Drought

2/28/2019

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Hi everyone! This week I gave a presentation of my PhD research for the Natural Resources Science and Management (NRSM) graduate student seminar here at the University of Minnesota. My research is based at the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) experiment located in northern Minnesota. ASCC is a national, collaborative effort with multiple study sites across the United States, focusing on adapting forests for climate change.

I am particularly interested in how these management treatments will respond to and interact with drought, especially from a seedling perspective. For example, will management strategies focused on resistance, resilience, and transition be effective in supporting our future forests if there is more severe drought? I am also looking at the effects of timing of drought and the lasting impacts of drought (legacies) across multiple seasons, and how management treatments interact with these questions. This work builds on some of the drought-related questions I pursued in my Masters, and looks at how drought impacts seedlings in a forest setting. My hope is that this work will help provide some real-world, on-the-ground answers for the future of our forests! 

It was recorded, and you can watch it the video below! I would love it if you gave it a look! Thank you!

P.S. My presentation also features some of my artwork. : ) 
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The Problems with "Nature"

10/24/2014

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For a long time, I have been troubled by the word nature. I make an effort not to use the word. Those who know me may have heard me speak of this, but here are some reasons to ponder, in a short essay I have written to summarize my thoughts -- and which, one day, will hopefully fit into a larger work which extends upon my historical and philosophical research/musings on conceptions of plant life and "rights" (and more broadly, earth). It might seem silly, but you might also find it worth the read and worth the contemplation.
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Earth Ride -- Biking Across the USA via the KXL 

8/15/2014

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From June 23rd to July 22nd, I biked 2,000 miles across the U.S.A following the route of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would transport oil from the oil sands of Alberta to the Texas. I biked in protest of this. You can read more about the pipeline and my stance here, and you can read my daily journal from the 29 days of biking here. We covered 7 states (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana) with an average of 70 miles per day starting in Houston TX and ending in Canada crossing at Morgan MT. An experience of a lifetime to be sure!

ANNNND, below I present the video that I compiled during the long ride.
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Mille Lacs-Kathio State Park

6/20/2011

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I visited Mille Lacs-Kathio State Park for the first time, this father's day with my dad and little brother. It was a struggle getting my little brother to go along, but I think that he might have actually enjoyed the forest. I handed my camera over to him while we wandered a trail, and he was able to explore. I certainly enjoyed having him around, and I am sure my dad did as well. I hope that he will learn respect and wonder for the forests and lands that he encounters.

There's also a fire tower at this park, which we climbed. The view of the oak and maple tree tops is beautiful, and the feeling of being in a fire tower was very nostalgic and reminiscent of late last summer. I will have to write down my experience spending the night in a Cloquet tower last summer. I will never forget the feel of the free wind above the treetops, whether it coasts past maple leaves or thin pine needles. The state park is very near to Rum River* State Forest. We walked a trail that led to the riverside, and it is a truly beautiful area. I hope to return. 

*The Rum River should be known instead as the Spirit River. 'Rum' is a European misinterpretation of Dakota.

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Mimosa pudica (含羞草)

6/20/2011

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I've been growing some Mimosa pudica seedlings for the past two weeks. I worked with them in my Plant Physiology course, and so I couldn't help but order a packet of seeds and plant my own. If you've never heard of the mimosa plant, you might know it's more common name -- the touch sensitive plant. Even when it is a few days old, its first leaves are able to move when stimulated by touch. When I planted these with my lab group, we only soaked the seeds for 24 hours before planting, and so we had a low germination rate. I've since learned that it is best to bring water to a boil, then place the seeds in the boiling water and let this sit (as it cools to room temp) for 24-36 hours. I had a much more successful germination rate (at least 80%), using this method. Even more exciting, the seeds began to germinate in the water after 24 hours. They are growing relatively quickly now, and all have their first set of true leaves (and of course, can move!). There are presently about 6 seedlings, and I'm excited to watch them grow!

I also realized recently that I've always known the Japanese word for this lovely plant -- I just never put two and two together! The shy or bashful plant (含羞草/おじぎそう). Ojigi also means 'bowing; bow', although that meaning uses different kanji. 
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Rowberg History Essay Contest

5/6/2011

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Earlier in the semester, I submitted my historical research paper "Conservation, Naturschutz, and Environmental Policy in Nazi Germany"  -- written for my fall semester Holocaust and History course -- to the St. Olaf history department Rowberg Essay Contest. I was extremely excited and honored to learn that my essay won 1st place. I was very proud of the work that went into this essay, and enjoyed the research process for it, because I entered an area, and a topic, which answered a question I was not only personally interested in, but also which I initially knew very little about. It is wonderful to hear some of the feedback that I have gotten on the essay, and I would like, when time permits, to delve deeper into researching the topic because there is much more to learn.
Prize poster
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Spring

4/15/2011

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I have finally accepted that spring is here -- but I always feel a sense of separation and sadness at the end of winter. The departure of the cold of winter has a similar feeling, to me, as that of moving out of a long-held room, or the dismantling of an exhibition of art. It is very easy to appreciate warmer, spring and summer weather. It is much harder, but worthwhile, to appreciate winter's chill; the winter is a time of balance, of subtleties, of delicacy, as well as harshness. Still, the first scent of mud in the sun never fails to send some measure of exhilaration through me, not unlike that of the first biting breeze.

I anticipate the rustle of leaves.

[EDIT 4/16] No sooner did I write this then there was a 1-3 inch snowfall in Northfield, with flurries about southern MN. It was a wonderful treat.
[EDIT 4/20] It is snowing again! 
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Some Reading

2/4/2011

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Some of my writing on Nerstrand can be read in BIOMASS, St. Olaf's online Biology newsletter, in the January issue under the title "The Winter Face." Additionally, read about the extratropical hurricane in the November issue, titled "Out Like A Hurricane." And check out the other articles, too!
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/biology/biomass/10-11/novbiomass2010.pdf
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/biology/biomass/10-11/janbiomass2011.pdf
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