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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - delivered as much … between ecosystems and the atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Gary was an author or co-author on many of the …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… of Canada. In these ecosystems, while fire is less common compared to drier parts of North America, many of the … Smoke produced from these fires is carried south by atmospheric circulation patterns. The unhealthy air … risk? Climate change is a strong contributor to recent trends in fire. As temperatures warm, the atmosphere is able …
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Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends
Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends Plant diversity is generally much higher … how much mutualisms might limit island biodiversity compared to other factors. To solve this mystery, the … islands, they calculated how many fewer species it hosted compared to the mainland at the same latitude. They call …
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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… in lake mixing is associated with global climate trends. Here, lead author, Dr. Isabella Oleksy, discusses … lake. Layers of different temperatures contain different concentrations of nutrients and oxygen; these conditions … Oscillation (NAO) is a cross-continent fluctuation of atmospheric pressure that affects winter and spring weather …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… along with colleagues, an analysis and summary in Atmospheric Environment of what became a national monitoring … there has been a remarkable decline in polluting sulfur concentrations and acidity,” says Likens. “That is a … and applied high-powered statistics to analyze the trends. “In putting it all together, the paper contains …
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Woody biomass fuels
… were burning trees long before we saw any rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We … climate. The costs of a biomass-energy plant should not be compared to the oil-fired powerplant, but to the costs of … U.S. forest sector as driven by recent disturbance trends. Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences doi: …
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Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds
… sodium chloride. Rain and melting snow carry this salt into local waterways and aquifers, where it can cause … he developed a model to explore controls on road salt concentration in lakes to reveal the concentration at which … . As a test of the model’s accuracy, predictions were compared to measurements taken at Mirror Lake in New …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… be working closely with scientists and technicians based locally at field sites in Panama, Brazil, Gabon, and … the study — that it has been impossible to make out clear trends of giant tree death. The Gigante team will … death for about 10,000 trees over the three-year project, compared to at most 360 for a traditional plot-based study. …
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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
… cope with climate change Study identifies trends linking temperature variability and forest … 20-year study periods, 1950-1969 and 2000-2019, to identify regional trends in climate variability. Records included monthly …
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Hydrogen fuels
… gas trapped in buried bubbles in Antarctic ice. When the concentration of an atmospheric gas is changing, we must look to both changing … Patterson, J.D. et al. 2021. H2 in Antarctic firn air: Atmospheric reconstructions and implications for …
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