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  1. Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure

    Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure … When they do, they tend to focus on stormwater management, favoring engineered facilities over parks and … Green infrastructure has its roots in 19th century landscape design. Its original conceptualization was broad, …

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  2. Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability

    Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability Synthesis of five frameworks … and unification. Pickett explains, “Urban ecological science is a young discipline. Because of its …

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  3. Michael J Fargione

    … Michael Fargione's responsibilities include the management of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies' … and helps deliver outdoor educational efforts geared toward the general public. Program goals include: … To provide secure sites for and support of relevant ecological research. To facilitate opportunities for …

    lizzy elliott - 12/18/2020 - 09:50

  4. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … the scientists wrote, “but rather was driven by the ecological change in North America beginning in the colonial … as farmers and pastoralists left the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  5. Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution

    … that we should restore soil organic matter by intensive management to increase soil carbon sequestration.  … could be involved, overlooking that vast areas of land are arid or unmanaged, and that large areas that are destined to … carbon dioxide.  Sequestration of carbon on the lands under active agriculture management would require …

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  6. Cary Institute receives $2 million gift to reimagine its headquarters

    … reimagine the headquarters of one of the nation’s leading ecological research organizations. Staff are global experts … sawtooth roofline, and have achieved energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Recycled and repurposed materials … on these systems. Our findings lead to more effective management and policy actions and increased environmental …

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  7. Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US

    … for people and ecosystems, and how fire modeling can guide management.   How do wildfires start? Wildfires start … changing ecosystems? We are already beginning to see the ecological consequences of changing fire behavior. Across … that provide guidance for such activities. On public lands abutting communities, we need to explore how proactive …

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  8. Getting parks out of green infrastructure purgatory

    … an important role in cooling cities, mediating urban heat islands. On an individual level, the psychological … exclusively focus on green infrastructure as a stormwater management strategy. This is because in 2007, the EPA … as green infrastructure? Parks are at the core of urban ecological networks. Their services extend beyond park …

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  9. Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

    … Católica de Chile. Pickett’s research explores the ecological structure of urban areas and how vegetation … China’s rapidly urbanizing Yanqi Valley, and riparian woodlands and savannas in Kruger National Park, South … on these systems. Our findings lead to more effective management and policy actions and increased environmental …

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  10. Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together

    … at others — and that AI development is hitting walls that ecological principles could help it to overcome.  “The … infectious disease? The problem is that, like most complex ecological systems, predicting disease transmission depends … one pathway for new lines of thinking,” said Varshney. Toward co-evolution While ecology and artificial …

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