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  1. Beech Bark Disease

    … transforming the dominant tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and … In the fall, bears climb and shake beech trees to produce a rain of beech nuts, which the bears then eat from the … in Nova Scotia in 2012. It is killing beech trees in forested and urban areas of that province, causing up to 70% …

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  2. Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space

    … regulation. For example, you may have noticed that a heavy rain after a prolonged drought doesn’t change the water … moisture. This is where our project, the SMAP Validation Experiment 2019-2021 – aka SMAPVEX19-21 – comes into … and validate SMAP satellite data – specifically over forested terrain. Originally, the SMAP mission aimed to …

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  3. To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform

    … equity planning principles. Rain garden in a vacant lot in Baltimore's McElderry Park … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …

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  4. With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront

    Acid Rain , … says Likens. Measurements began at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in June 1963, followed by the …

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  5. The bittersweet story of how we stopped acid rain

    The bittersweet story of how we stopped acid rain Cary's Gene Likens' discovery of acid rain … part of a team attempting to close the loop on an acid rain experiment that began in the 1970s. Bitter controversy …

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  6. Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay

    … were collected from six sites in Baltimore’s Gwynns Falls watershed. Fork explains, “Because Gwynns Falls streams … from suburban to highly urban. The team also sampled a forested reference site to the northwest of the Gwynns Falls … regulation and provide metrics to assess future pollution mitigation efforts. Rosi notes, “We estimate that …

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  7. Ocean acidification

    … and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), dissolve in water, they make it acid.  When these gases are emitted as air pollutants, they cause acid rain in the regions downwind of the source.  The rain that falls is a weak solution of sulfuric …

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  8. Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19

    … novel viruses with epidemic potential and measures for risk mitigation, they write in the study. The research … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … We do have a scenario but that is not the bat itself (as a source). It’s a whole series of events that led to a …

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  9. Measuring soil water from space

    … soils are full of water, saturated from winter snowmelt and rain. Some of us call it ‘mud season’. In summer, when … from May through October 2019. Readings were taken at a forested monitoring site located in Kent, Connecticut. …

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  10. Reading the Forested Landscape with Tom Wessels

    Reading the Forested Landscape with Tom Wessels The … to tell. Tom Wessels, ecologist and author of Reading the Forested Landscape and Forest Forensics, teaches us to … and New England’s Roadside Ecology . Additional resources Presentation slides (pdf) New England …