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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… kindest and most supportive mentors and a wonderful role model. I began working with him as an undergraduate in Cary … Thanks for advising me in such a kind and generous way during my 2-years research at Cary. I loved sampling with … who made an impression on everyone he crossed paths with during his journey on this earth. Sending love and prayers …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… breeding range southward The story behind a model that helped support this counterintuitive discovery. … had a chance to participate in the Jamaica field work during her postdoc, helping to hang nets between mangrove … approach gave us the opportunity to really broaden out the spatial scope of what we were considering.” “It's …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… that integrate remote sensing and computer simulations to model forest response – scaling from individual trees up … managers and policy makers tasked with stewarding forests during a time of profound change. Hansen often brings … projects including the creation of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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I’m a tick biologist whose body seems to kill off ticks
… of the growing season, but these outbreaks are sporadic or cyclic; most years spongy moths are sparse and do no visible … nature. As a consequence, I was frequently bitten by ticks during those early years when I was in the field most weeks …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… sent him home with a private tutor for a month. Some nights during the ordeal he would sleep on his parents’ bedroom … at Yale who took care of Anderson and other sick children during the initial years of the outbreak. Steere was … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… a veterinarian infected by a sedated house cat that sneezed during a SARS-CoV-2 nasal swabbing. Although such … might arise. Her team has developed a machine learning model to predict the most spillover-susceptible species. The … we’re willing to invest in.” Airborne transmission during close contact, virions in wastewater, and rodents and …
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The smell of the city
… bonds between them (unsaturated). Benzene is the classic cyclic carbon compound. When the rings themselves are bound …
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Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2
… this obstacle, the team developed a machine learning model that combined data on the biological traits of 5,400 … deer, mink, raccoon dogs, snow leopard, and others. The model found that the riskiest mammal species were often … statement Authors were supported by various grants during the course of this work, including the National …
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Nitrogen-fixing trees help tropical forests grow faster and store more carbon
… adaptation gives them an edge in recently cleared, early succession tropical soils that are nitrogen-poor. Fixers … decades to centuries to measure. Instead, we developed a model to quantify ecosystem processes, like nitrogen … with nitrogen-fixing trees grow more rapidly in early succession and have a higher carbon storage potential than …
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Leaded soil
… (-45%) and in the blood of children (-64%) in New Orleans during the past 12 to 15 years. Despite this success, the … 2012. The effects of the urban built environment on the spatial distribution of lead in residential soils. …
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