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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… Ballooning deer populations, second-growth forests, suburban and exurban growth, habitat degradation, predator … and suppression, there is a concept called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. It is the transition zone where … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County’s leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay
… in Environmental Science & Technology that monitored an urban stream network over a yearlong period. Drug … Sites represented a gradient of development, ranging from suburban to highly urban. The team also sampled a forested … meaning aquatic organisms are exposed to a constantly changing mixture of compounds. Fork explains, …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… forest ecology, social-ecological resilience, natural disturbance 845 677-7600 … had two foci: the socioecological repercussions for changing fire regimes in the Sonoran Desert and … She has conducted plant community research in acacian woodlands of Kenya, sagebrush steppe of the Rocky Mountains, …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Dr. Danielle Hare
… Ecologist Expertise aquatic ecology, ecosystem ecology, stream ecology, hydrology, … stream biogeochemical fluxes at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Dr. Solomon and Dr. Stuart Jones in lake … with Dr. Ashley Helton. Her doctoral research examined how changing stream temperature affects organic carbon cycling …
ltumblety - 02/05/2024 - 09:36
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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 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, died on December 17, while skiing with … Program, notes, “Gary was an internationally recognized forest ecologist who made fundamental contributions to the …
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Cary Institute to offer immersive, paid research experience for teachers
… Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies is launching a new program to support … Hudson Valley school districts that serve both urban and rural populations have expressed interest in the … the opportunity to create and run simulations of future forest and fire dynamics, conduct field surveys of tick …
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Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
… Urban Ecology … China’s rapidly urbanizing Yanqi Valley, and riparian woodlands and savannas in Kruger National Park, South … “Steward’s leadership in theoretical ecology, forest succession and patch dynamics, and his pioneering …
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Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America
… Groffman’s research focuses on climate effects on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to carbon and … . “From microbes to global biogeochemical cycles, from urban to forest ecosystems, from soil to water, from national …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… a $1.45 million grant from the National Science Foundation, forest ecologist Evan Gora from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is co-leading a new project that will … trees are really the dominant contribution they make to changing our planet's climate. So the goal of our project is …
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Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge
… south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe forest in northern Gabon, are used to occasional bouts of … says, is that diseases are likely to spring up in both urban and natural environments. “We have created densely … Sciences who studies how shrinking natural habitats and changing behavior add to the risks of diseases spilling over …
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