The Tumber-Dávila Lab is a collaborative, mentorship-focused group, working to understand the interactions between ecosystems and global change.
Lab News and Updates
February 24, 2025
Our PhD student, Junior Burks, helped teach a combined field trip for high schoolers from Lebanon High School in NH and Fajardo Academy in Puerto Rico. The group traveled to the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Woodstock NH to learn about New Hampshire’s winter ecology. Junior taught students about the invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. NHPR has the story here.
January 10, 2025
Website official launch. Our digital presence is growing almost as quickly as our lab!
We study
Plant root systems, functional traits, and above-belowground allometry
Adapted from Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Grünlandpflanzen (Kutschera et al. 1992).
Global environmental change and disturbance
Forest carbon as a nature-based solution
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging in academia and STEM
Our research takes place in terrestrial ecosystems, including:
Harvard Forest LTER
Petersham, MA
Second College Grant
Coös County, NH
Fullington Farm Forest
Hanover, NH
