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

    … event on September 20 will announce a new initiative to use ecology and predictive science to support innovative, … a recipe for uncontrollable burning. Once ignited, these fires threaten people, structures, and future forests. Burns … research has helped to project future increases in forest fires , reveal the impacts of fire on water supply , and …

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  2. Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist

    … fell to unhealthy levels for millions of people. Fire ecology is a major research area for Cary scientist … we are seeing, and in many cases smelling, is from large fires in boreal forests of Canada. In these ecosystems, … are fire adapted. What is changing is the severity of these fires. Climate change driven drought is causing fuels to dry …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … Europe). According to a 2017 study in the journal Nature, Ecology, and Evolution in which scientists sequenced nearly … The forests are back, but without the low-severity forest fires that Indigenous people used to burn away underbrush, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  4. Dr. Manette Sandor

    … of future fire, a thorough understanding of how more severe fires affect ecosystems, and potentially novel management … worst-case fire scenarios. Sandor’s work synthesizes fire ecology, forest structure and community dynamics, and … strategies to mitigate increasingly severe and frequent fires.   Dr. Manette Sandor Placement …

    ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:44

  5. Dr. Winslow D. Hansen

    … Hansen Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural … where people and forests may be most threatened by fires across the western United States, including … and  pollination). She received her M.Sc. in plant ecology and Ph.D. in  ecology and evolutionary biology from …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15

  6. Dr. David L. Strayer

    … also works on broader issues in freshwater conservation ecology and invasion biology. Species introductions are … of the longest and most detailed case studies in invasion ecology. Strayer also works on the ecology and … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …

    ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40

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

    … and a PhD from Dartmouth College in Biology and Plant Ecology (1981). Before being hired at Cary Institute, he was … influence is deep & has shaped thought about ecosystems, & ecology more generally, for many of us. What a loss. …

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  8. Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning

    … equity work. A recent open-access paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment put forth a more expansive … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , … environmental literacy. Staff are global experts in the ecology of: cities, disease, forests, and freshwater. …

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  9. Pandemics: Humans are the culprits

    … newspaper In 1997, I went to Borneo to investigate fires which had been raging uncontrolled for months across a … diseases. Months after monsoon rains finally doused the fires, a mysterious, deadly disease broke out hundreds of … like COVID-19 emerging,” says Kate Jones, professor of ecology and biodiversity at University College London (UCL). …

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

    … story at the forefront A good example of how communicating scientific data can inform effective … now Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Emeritus at the Cary … the outcomes the researchers show is a good example of how communicating scientific data can inform effective …

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