Radioactive sessions
Sessions last an hour, in which I have to link to something, chain my mind so it doesn’t float away and go to dark places. Music is the easiest anchor; each session I hand-in a piece of paper with the...
View ArticleCarbon
I am fascinated by trees, those cute and enormous organisms made out of air. The idea that I can hug the trunk of a little seedling I planted a quarter of a century ago, or stand next to a...
View ArticleIn between plant and animal breeding 1: economic weights
Unless you live in paradise and you have a single objective trait—so your whole breeding objective is “more X”—you have to take into account trade-offs between traits. On the genetics front we deal...
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Essentially
A month ago I said “trees are much more than wood and one of our PhD students at the School of Forestry, University of Canterbury had a look at production of Eucalypts essential oils, particularly...
View ArticleDo you remember your first time?
You were nervous. Would they like it as much as you did? Would you make the cut? Your first manuscript as a senior author tends to be a memorable experience. On one side, you have been working a long...
View Article¿A quién citamos en el sector forestal?
En mi post anterior preguntaba ¿A quién subsidiamos en el sector forestal?, lo que despertó una buena y civilizada discusión. Aprecio mucho la posibilidad de conversar así.Hoy ví que Horacio Gilabert...
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A dollop of Spanish
Most of my followers are English speakers (native speakers, second-language, third-language, nth-language speakers) so they could be confused by my occasional posts in Spanish. Well, I was born in...
View ArticleEscogemos producir madera de baja calidad
Tercera patita(*). La semana pasada participé en tres reuniones en el éter (online dirían algunos), discutiendo investigación en diferentes aspectos del sector forestal, tanto en plantaciones como en...
View ArticleLast day of teaching
…for this semester. I was really trying to keep my head above water, but gulp, glug, I kept on taking water in. There is a pile of marking and two exams coming my way in a few weeks. Anyone that could...
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Breeding: simple interfaces, complex strategies
I found this text I wrote 20 years ago(*), part of a discussion document I prepared for a review of the radiata pine breeding strategy. Fixed a couple of typos, but I guess we still need pretty much...
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