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  1. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … into action drew on his expertise on the interplay between ecosystems and the atmospheric deposition of pollutants. … Gary was faced with a harsh reality – trees on his study plots were dying off due to pests like Beech Bark … a brilliant path as both a scientist and a high quality human being. Scott Ollinger Speaking on behalf of …

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  2. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … it spread with such tenacity? The short answer: heedless human meddling with Mother Earth. We pull at the strings of … of years (as it has been in Europe). According to a 2017 study in the journal Nature, Ecology, and Evolution in which … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  3. Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability

    … Toward sustainability Synthesis of five frameworks seeks to advance global urban science. Photo … urban ecology, their synthesis addresses a need for greater conceptual comprehensiveness and unification. Pickett … ecology, notes that “The long-term Baltimore Ecosystem Study has uniquely prepared this group to make the …

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

    … in planning processes, and puts forth an assessment framework and recommendations for advancing more equitable … and distribution. They found widespread failure of plans to conceptualize and operationalize equity planning principles. … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …

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  5. Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends

    … tended to support more plants.  What is new from this study is that it shows mutualisms are just as important as … and maintain high diversity, particularly in tropical ecosystems.   “Mutualisms matter,” said … their findings, and she is interested in investigating how human introduction of plants to islands alters the patterns …

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

    … and patch dynamics, and his pioneering studies of urban ecosystems are among the many scientific contributions … He is the founding director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (1997-2016), and also co-directed the Urban … Gene Likens was elected in 1981 for his studies of human accelerated environmental change at the Hubbard Brook …

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  7. Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward

    … moving northward to cooler climates. However, a new study finds that climate change is pushing at least one bird … While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, … in lower right corners show the yearly number of reported human infections in each region. Around the same time …

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  8. Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife

    Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife … Human Health , … (the virus that causes COVID-19) behaves in natural ecosystems, to anticipate strains with the potential to …

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  9. Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds

    … diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds Photo by. CIFOR August 5, … Biodiversity The human destruction of natural ecosystems increases the numbers of rats, bats and other …

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  10. Cary Institute to host Climate Week NYC event on addressing the wildfire crisis

    … experiments, remote sensing, and computer simulations to study how forests are responding to climate change. His … makers are being asked to balance the competing demands of human safety, fuels management, air quality, biodiversity … scientific uncertainty about where, when, how, and why ecosystems and fire regimes will change over the next few …

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