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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… and Senior Scientist Emeritus at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, died on December 17, while skiing with … in 1985. He recalls, “Gary was incredibly bright and an early adopter of using computer models to understand … been diverse and have had a very high impact.” His early research transformed how scientists calculate forest …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… quickly. “When COVID first broke out some of the early speculations were that it even came from cobras. Can … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … but that is not the bat itself (as a source). It’s a whole series of events that led to a spillover of …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… to protect his privacy—was one of the kids in that early cluster of childhood cases in the town that would give … say above, is a polite way to put it. “We fucked up the ecosystem” is probably a better way to say it. … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback
… recent years. Ebola jumped from humans to great apes in the early 2000s with devastating consequences, the H1N1 … back and forth between its new host and humans. Ominous warnings can be found in the cases of yellow fever, Ebola, … , a disease ecologist at New York’s Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, created a computer model which …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… environmental monitoring program manager, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies For instance, in Beijing in 2005, … soil were found to be 392 times higher than normal. As early as 2006, China’s central government published the … of Calgary and some parts of British Columbia have been experimenting with beetroot juice. While the US state of …
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Cary Institute to offer immersive, paid research experience for teachers
… Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies is launching a new program to support … “Students need to engage with ecology and STEM early, to instill confidence in them that this is a field … Van Tassell. “Science is always an adventure, and experiments require a lot of creativity and trial and …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… LaDeau’s work showed that in 1999 and the early 2000s, West Nile virus caused a drop in American crow … in urban areas. Since then, her work with Baltimore Ecosystem Study has helped to unravel how the built and …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… another branch of biology — ecology — could inspire a whole new generation of AI to be more powerful, resilient, … Barbara Han , a disease ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies , who co-led the paper along with IBM … could generate unique hypotheses to test and open up whole new lines of ecological research, said LaDeau. How …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… forest ecologist Evan Gora from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is co-leading a new project that will … and the University of Leeds, the team will work to train early career scientists. Evan Gora and …
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In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
… increase in the death of small trees, which could lead to shifts in composition of tropical forests and their ability … lead author and a Research Fellow at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, explains, “ Lightning is a major cause … Investigators Evan M. Gora - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute …
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