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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… summer of 1976, The New York Times ran a story: “A New Type of Arthritis Found in Lyme.” Documenting the dozens … maybe you’re just lounging in a sunny backyard abutting a patch of forest. A few days later you find an engorged tick … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… Wildfires Cary forest ecologist Winslow Hansen is developing new ways to … some plant species burn hotter and easier than others, the type of vegetation growing in a region influences the fires that burn there. How many wildfires …
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Elizabeth Buhr
… Buhr is a field manager and junior programmer in the Forest Futures Lab. She coordinates Alaskan fieldwork and … of field data. Her research in Alaska centers on boreal forest regeneration after wildfires. Elizabeth has a background …
ltumblety - 12/11/2023 - 09:00
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Paid summer fellowships available in the Catskills
… 2021 Fellows: Final Presentations: Freshwater Invasives & Forest Regeneration 2021 Fellows: Final Presentations: Stream Stewardship & Invasive Forest Pests 2020 Fellow: Final Presentations: Black …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … of Pynurkba in East Jaintia hills to dedicate a small patch of their forest to save the rare Wroughton’s free-tailed bats. …
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Dr. Evan Gora
Dr. Evan Gora Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, lightning, plant death, decomposition … takes a bottom-up approach to understand how plant death influences ecosystem processes. He studies local patterns …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist We should expect that the … Winslow Hansen , who directs the newly formed Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative , a … burned for millennia and relied on fire for healthy regeneration. Fire suppression has led to an accumulation …
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In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
… explains, “ Lightning is a major cause of tree death and forest disturbance , yet it has been understudied as an … strike.” The research took place in a lowland forest on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, the only tropical … to deeper canopy gaps that then become hotspots for liana regeneration which, in turn, amplify the severity of future …
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Ecology of Lightning
… in the forest canopy, created after lightning killed this patch of trees. Forests may recover differently from … It is the only system of its kind being used for this type of work. We expect it will capture an unprecedented … and store carbon far into the future. Publications …
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Selected Publications by Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
Selected Publications by Dr. Winslow D. Hansen Abatzoglou, J.T., … and C.A. Kolden. 2021. Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints . … Olnes, and A.P. Williams. 2020. An alternate vegetation type proves resilient and persists for decades following …