Congratulations to both Alison White and Katherine Standen! Ali defended her MSc in February and has just accepted a job with Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s Southern Region Resources Information & Analysis Unit as a Forest Analyst Intern – way to go Ali! In the same week Katherine Standen had a hugely successful PhD proposal defence and qualifying exam and is now sleeping a little easier. The rest of us have been hard at work getting ready for another big field season studying fire ecology, impacts of permafrost thaw on plant communities, and subarctic forest ecohydrology… field crews depart on June 4!