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Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space
… Earth and atmosphere – processes that determine weather patterns. Measuring soil moisture with ground sensors … critical to knowing the potential for floods and droughts, along with agricultural productivity and weather … dominated by grasslands, crops, and other low-growing vegetation. However, much of the Earth’s surface is …
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Measuring soil water from space
… rain. Some of us call it ‘mud season’. In summer, when vegetation is fully developed, plants take up nearly all of … as leaves lose their capacity to draw water. These patterns tend to operate consistently on a macro level. But … As Earth rotates, SMAP takes soil moisture measurements along a 1000 km-wide path, north to south, about every three …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… devastating winter storms of 2008, residents of villages along the Beijing–Zhuhai expressway reported issues with … pavements and bridges, while also protecting roadside vegetation. Kelly said she was unable to comment on … ensuring road safety in winter and protecting roadside vegetation, groundwater and human health requires …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, there was less data on what was happening in … census the number and types of birds they can see or hear along roadsides across the contiguous United States. … we decided that we could go a step further and see if the patterns in the breeding region agreed with the data that …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies , who co-led the paper along with IBM Research’s Kush Varshney . “It could … — are already using artificial intelligence to search for patterns in large data sets and to make more accurate …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the global climate. To differentiate between the … lightning strikes and weather conditions, including rainfall, humidity, temperature, light intensity, vapor …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… air - delivered as much or more nitrogen to forests than rainfall. Gary also advanced scientific understanding of …
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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
… Institute of Ecosystem Studies, says, “Global climate patterns are becoming increasingly variable. This means more … modern forest productivity, the researchers used global vegetation data detected by NASA’s MODIS satellites . The ‘enhanced vegetation index’ (EVI) is a satellite-derived measure of …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… 700 years ago.” If the Lyme pathogen has been here all along, why was the disease absent—or at least not … of oak, hemlock, chestnut, and other species that grew along the Atlantic littoral. By the middle of the 19th … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… fields smothered fish spawning sites, destroyed aquatic vegetation, and clogged fish gills; toxic metals, cyanide, … quality benefited people as well as aquatic life. Beaches along Lake Erie, the Hudson River and many other waters … and cultural connections with our waters. Properties along polluted waters were left to decay, real estate values …
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