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

    … with great sadness that we share that Gary M. Lovett , forest ecologist and Senior Scientist Emeritus at Cary … was deep and will be missed by many.” Raised in New York’s Capital Region, Lovett was shaped by summers at … of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, and microbes interact to control nitrogen, and how …

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  2. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … Anderson could romp for hours in the gentle New England forest with little fear. Only later, after years in and out … small ridge and arrive at a forest plot studded with small metal traps. It’s early morning, and some of the traps, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  3. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … January, potholes began appearing on Dalian’s roads after heavy snowfalls. Residents of the north-eastern Chinese city … chloride ions damage the external protective layer of metal components in car chassis and accelerate tyre ageing. … on a large scale. Professor Liu Yong, of the College of Forestry at Beijing Forestry University, explained that the …

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  4. Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space

    Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space NASA satellite can inform … regulation. For example, you may have noticed that a heavy rain after a prolonged drought doesn’t change the …

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

    … at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, has published, along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in … Measurements began at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in June 1963, followed by the establishment of the … was to strip the buffering capacity out of sensitive soils, for instance the White Mountains of New Hampshire and …

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  6. Measuring soil water from space

    … entire globe. My collaborators include partners at Harvard Forest in Massachusetts, as well as colleagues from … NASA. When the growing season begins in the spring, soils are full of water, saturated from winter snowmelt and … As Earth rotates, SMAP takes soil moisture measurements along a 1000 km-wide path, north to south, about every three …

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  7. Jonathan J. Cole: In Memory

    … - July 25, 2023) August 9, 2023 It's with a heavy heart that we share news of the death of limnologist … carbon cycle. Up to 50 percent of the carbon stored in soils is exported to streams, rivers, and lakes. His work in … was a brilliant aquatic ecologist who always saw something new or different in what appeared to others as mundane. This …

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  8. What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out

    … in tropical forests store a stunning amount of carbon. A new tree forensics project seeks to find out why they die, … a $1.45 million grant from the National Science Foundation, forest ecologist Evan Gora from Cary Institute of … drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the global climate. To differentiate between the …

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  9. In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores

    … by insects and other animals reduces nitrogen, limits forest growth. Photo by Sarah Batterman December … of fixers and the nitrogen they provide. So reports a new paper out this week in the journal Nature , which … to plants. When fixers shed their leaves, they enrich soils with nitrogen, benefitting nearby plants. In …

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  10. Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges

    … destroyed aquatic vegetation, and clogged fish gills; toxic metals, cyanide, oils, and other pollutants ran uncontrolled … Plant effluent. In addition, large quantities of black heavy oil floating in slicks, sometimes several inches … quality benefited people as well as aquatic life. Beaches along Lake Erie, the Hudson River and many other waters …

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