It is very exciting to have part of my research I conducted at Dartmouth College to be picked up by science new networks. Science Daily and AAAS’ Eurekalert!  have written about my publication in the journal of Plant and Soil. I collected soils and monitored trace metals in forest stands over three years in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Using estimations of precipitation of metals and dry deposition of metals with modeled litterfall rates of trace metals, I found that plant nutrients are cycled a much faster rates under deciduous stands compared to coniferous stands. This is quite important when New England is projected to lose the majority of evergreen trees such as pine, spruce, hemlock, and firs due to a changing climate. While more research is needed to understand the transition between forest types, this is one of the first studies to show that the loss of evergreens means a change in the biogeochemsitry of metals is likely to occur.