June 5, 2013

In a recent article on how spring seems to be coming earlier each year, the Philadelphia Inquirer looked to research conducted by Zoe Panchen, currently a Carleton PhD student in Biology.

As a Master’s student at the University of Delaware, Panchen examined the impact of climate change on flowering times of plants in the Philadelphia area.  Her research was published in the American Journal of Botany in 2012.

Now in the second year of her PhD, Panchen is spending the summer in the Arctic researching how Arctic plants are responding to climate change, specifically monitoring Arctic plant phenology and in particular their flowering and fruiting times

Read the Philiadelphia Inquirer article here.

Posted on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 in Grad Student Research