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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… spreading methods. Environmental and health hazards Potassium acetate and chloride salts are the most common … used on airport runways. Chloride salts (such as sodium, calcium, and magnesium chlorides) are almost one-tenth the … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - delivered as much … Gary also advanced scientific understanding of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, and …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in Atmospheric Environment of what became a national monitoring … (MAP3S) Network in 1976, and later the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) network in 1978. In all, the … entire ecosystems for decades. “One of the major effects of acid precipitation was to strip the buffering …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire will be an increasingly prevalent part of … Smoke produced from these fires is carried south by atmospheric circulation patterns. The unhealthy air … fires, even if you are only exposed to smoke. The health effects of wildfire smoke exposure range from minor eye and …
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Dr. David L. Strayer
… whose current work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and … from the water. These animals can have large, pervasive effects on aquatic ecosystems. Strayer is currently … 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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Victoria Kelly
… been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …
ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43
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Acid Rain
… as it once was, acid rain—more correctly called “acid deposition” because it also involves snow, fog, particles, … to the landscape in raindrops, snowflakes, fog, dew, and atmospheric particles. Pollutants can travel hundreds of … have conducted important research on acid rain and its effects for decades. In addition, Cary Institute has …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… kid, they were common in Lyme. His house was surrounded on two sides by forest, and Anderson liked to bike in the … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… that nitrogen-fixing trees work with soil microbes to make atmospheric nitrogen available to plants. Our study found … fertilize other plants throughout the forest, with broad effects on nutrient cycling in the forest community.” Lead author Dimitar …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… will sink beneath warm water until the temperatures of the two layers equalize. As this happens, the cold and warm … lake habitable for a variety of organisms. Understanding effects of stratification on aquatic animals and water … Oscillation (NAO) is a cross-continent fluctuation of atmospheric pressure that affects winter and spring weather …
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