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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 … Cary Institute, he was a postgraduate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1981-83) and a research associate at … “Gary was incredibly bright and an early adopter of using computer models to understand ecosystem processes. He …
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Dr. Ian McGregor
Dr. Ian McGregor Forest Ecologist, Remote Sensing Scientist845 677-7600 … with other sites across the Tropics and involves analyses using a mixture of drone flights, multi-source satellite …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:41
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… Others, including Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ … conversion to exurban and suburban use has exploded. This trend has been particularly intense in the Northeast. The … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Dr. Jazlynn Hall
Dr. Jazlynn Hall Forest and Landscape Ecologisthallj@caryinstitute.org … continuous ecological processes that enable seamless projections into the future. Dr. Hall is validating forest … USFS, and NASA to evaluate the extent of the forest damage using remote sensing methods and to determine the subsequent …
ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:34
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… new study , published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , finds that a long-term drying trend throughout the Caribbean is making it harder for … it back up again several years later, adding new data and analyses. By linking conditions at the birds’ …
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Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US
… can help us adapt. 2013 Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by National Park Service September … factors might alter outcomes. This allows us to develop projections of how fire will affect forests in western North … interventions and evaluate consequences without risk. Using computer simulations, we can ‘treat’ large swaths …
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Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space
… soil moisture on a global scale. Instead, scientists are using satellites. NASA’s SMAP (Soil Moisture Active … and hone crop yield and seasonal water availability projections. Soil moisture can foreshadow natural disasters … This work was made possible with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A …
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The planetary toll of your morning coffee
… Considerable energy is used when consumers brew a full pot using traditional methods, but then leave the heat on to … 300: 587. Quadra, G.R. and 7 others. 2020. A global trend of caffeine consumption over time and … in tropical agricultural countryside. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 9903-9912. …
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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 … constraints on nitrogen-fixing trees in climate models and projections of the tropical forest carbon sink. By … Council Grant #275556724, the Leverhulme Trust, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF DEB 1464389 to LSC). …
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… in 122 official city planning documents from 20 US cities, using a novel framework that focused on vision, process, and … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . … grant “Is Green Infrastructure a Universal Good?”), the National Science Foundation (grants #1444755, #1927167, and …
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