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Legacy of acid rain: A tale of two species

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….

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,…

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…