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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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