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Kai Zhu awarded NSF grant

Kai Zhu awarded NSF grant

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) to Kai Zhu for support of the project entitled “DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Forest climate requirements change through species life history.” This award is effective May 1 , 2013 and expires April 30, 2014. [more]

Kai Zhu receives Dean’s Award

Kai Zhu receives Dean’s Award

Kai Zhu has been named winner of this year’s Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Student Manuscript of Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He was honored for his entry, “Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change,” which was published in Global Change Biology. He will be acknowledged at this year’s graduation ceremony on May 12, and receive a check for $1,500. [more]

Faculty 1000 features Zhu et al. Global Change Biology tree migration paper

Faculty 1000 features Zhu et al. Global Change Biology tree migration paper

“Zhu, Woodall and Clark use a relatively simple and elegant approach to analyze forest inventory analysis (FIA) data… [T]he work is a valuable contribution and gives sufficient evidence that range responses of trees to climate change will not be as simple as a little bump to the north…” links to F1000 evaluation and GCB article.