Talk Description: Air pollution control efforts have succeeded in reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, but decades of acid rain have leached calcium and magnesium from Northeastern forest soils….
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Contrast & Cadence
By Kelsey Bisson For a while the ocean existed to me as an abstraction. I grew up in Ohio and I’d never been. I imagined it to be the deepest,…
Fruška gora LTER site from the perspective of hoverflies, treeclimbers and satellites
By Dušanka Krašić If it wasn’t for this geological bump (the highest peak 549m), the northern part of Serbia would remain devoid of many ecosystem services, much of its biodiversity,…
Climate-Resilient Coasts: How long-term research and restoration informs management
Talk Description: Coastal habitats are the first line of defense against sea-level rise and storms. At the same time, they are vulnerable to change, and can be pushed past tipping…
Fire and ice: Carbon cycling feedbacks to climate in a warming Arctic
Talk Description: About 30% of global carbon stocks reside in the vegetation and deep, carbon-rich soils of Arctic tundra and boreal forest biomes. Wildfires—which are becoming more frequent with warmer…
Beyond desertification: New models for state change in drylands
Talk Description: One of the classic state-change stories is that over-grazing and drought turn grasslands into shrubby, degraded landscapes. Land managers strive to avoid such irreversible changes, using strategies based…
Dr. Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll is a Distinguished and University Professor at Syracuse University. Driscoll’s scholarly work addresses the effects of disturbance on forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems, including air pollution (acid…
(Don’t) judge an aquifer by its covering
Here comes the sun (at our field site) Credit: Laura Busato By Laura Busato, Siptenfelde and TERENO observatory Harz/Central German Lowland My second time in Germany starts on a hot…
Dr. Karen McGlathery
Karen McGlathery is a Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. A specialist on effects of environmental change, including climate, sea-level rise, eutrophication and species invasions in coastal…
Dr. Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman is a Professor at the City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center and Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and a Senior Research…