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Cary Institute receives $2 million gift to reimagine its headquarters
… will help provide the facilities needed for 21st century science. Entrance to the Tozer Ecosystem Science … 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 …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… his career, Gary stretched the boundaries of ecosystem science, advancing understanding of how forests process … other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill … have a gift for bringing people together to tackle complex ecological issues in a way that maximized the usefulness of …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… Discover why wildfires are increasing and how science can help us adapt. 2013 Alder Fire in … changing ecosystems? We are already beginning to see the ecological consequences of changing fire behavior. Across … will affect forests in western North America through the 21st century. How can models inform management? We can …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… it will spill over,” Letko said. “That’s where the ecological factors come into the picture.” Prime among … get sick is insufficient, researchers recently argued in Science Advances. Computing the global cost of pandemics in … sharing between species might evolve over the next half century. As climate change alters human land use and causes …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… the scientists wrote, “but rather was driven by the ecological change in North America beginning in the colonial … grew along the Atlantic littoral. By the middle of the 19th century, roughly three-fourths of southern New England had … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Joy Damon
Joy Damon Catskill Science Collaborative Coordinator845 677-7600 … Joy is a past fellow of the Catskill Science Collaborative , where she studied perceptions of … and local community collaboration to encourage human and ecological resilience in the face of climate change. …
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Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure
… has been embraced as a tool to help cities achieve sustainability and resilience goals while improving the … funding and cause cities to miss out on vital social and ecological services that more integrative green … provide.” Green infrastructure has its roots in 19th century landscape design. Its original conceptualization was …
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Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability
Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability Synthesis of five frameworks seeks to advance global urban science. Photo by Chesapeake Bay Program/Will Parson … and unification. Pickett explains, “Urban ecological science is a young discipline. Because of its …
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The Lost Snail of the Yangtze
… animal and figure out what the heck is was. Nearly a century later, malacologists still are arguing about what … so little about the denizens of the great rapids? First, ecological conditions in these great rapids are so unusual … found in the Congo River rapids (Winemiller et al. 2016, Science). 1 = Mormyrus cyaneus (CR), 2 = …
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Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
… Trustee and Professor in the department of environmental science and policy at George Mason University, and Juan … Católica de Chile. Pickett’s research explores the ecological structure of urban areas and how vegetation … Study (1997-2016), and also co-directed the Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network. This project …
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