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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill Environmental Research and Monitoring (CERM) conference, … Gary also advanced scientific understanding of nutrient cycling in forests, in particular how trees, soils, and … to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to streams. …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients By enriching soils, they benefit forest recovery and carbon storage Photo by Sarah Batterman March 10, … where they enable phosphorus release by breaking down iron-bearing minerals. Two important products of …
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Dr. Danielle Hare
… in Ecosystem Ecology in the Natural Resources and Environment department, working with Dr. Ashley Helton. Her … examined how changing stream temperature affects organic carbon cycling and stream ecosystems, and methods to use stream …
ltumblety - 02/05/2024 - 09:36
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution … carbon sequestration is slow stems from its nitrogen and phosphorus contents, which are also lost alongside soil … (and thus CO2) cost. While we can encourage the rapid cycling of P in soils, there is no good way to increase the …
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Geoengineering II: The sea
Geoengineering II: The sea Adding iron to the oceans can lower the level of CO2 in the … Carbon , … of nutrients to conduct their biochemistry—nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, and perhaps as many as 25 other elements. …
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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… studies microbial communities, which exist in nearly every environment and play a key role in nutrient cycling. These tiny and abundant microorganisms help … how livestock antibiotics affect soil microbes, soil carbon storage, nitrogen cycling, and the rise of antibiotic …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:12
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Dr. Evan Gora
… play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality rates are shifting with … the composition of our forests and their capacity to store carbon. After plants die, they decompose with major … for the global carbon budget. Evan explores how environmental conditions, biogeochemistry, and decomposer …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:10
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Victoria Kelly
Victoria Kelly Environmental Monitoring Program Manager845 677-7600 … program have been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation … 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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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… discusses the importance of lake mixing, what a longer stratified period means for lake processes, and how global … fish kills and harmful algal blooms. When a lake remains stratified for longer periods of time, the lower layers … the areas that it affects. We are seeing that Mohonk Lake responds to NAO fluctuations in a very consistent way. …
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July: Stay cool
… to defeat the wind. Once this happens, the lake becomes “stratified” – the surface waters continue to warm up, … warms, lakes stratify earlier in the spring and stay stratified later into the fall, so coldwater fishes have to stay longer and longer in that sealed room. Stratified lakes thus provide a summer refuge for coldwater …
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