Posts for tag "featured"
Treating Harmful Algal Blooms: A Natural Progression
Researchers continue to perfect approaches to forecasting, assessing the impact, and preventing Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB).
- Posted September 19, 2022
The Coevolutionary Arms Race: Fungus-Growing Ants and Social Parasites
Thinking about how to eradicate social parasites is common, but there is a lot to learn from parasites--they’re drivers of selection shaping populations.
- Posted September 12, 2022
Health, Resilience and Stewardship in the Hudson River: Responding to Climate Emergencies
HRNERR is dedicated to improving the health of the Hudson River through education, training, restoration, monitoring, and research programs.
- Posted August 29, 2022
So Far Yet So Close: Remote Sensing at Everett
Integration of remote sensing technology into undergraduate education can help society solve environmental problems faster.
- Posted August 22, 2022
Green Guidance: Forests Point the Way to Better Stormwater Management
Inspired by nature, recent research shows how stormwater management could be improved by using green infrastructure techniques.
- Posted August 15, 2022
Coastal Restoration in Rhode Island
TNC programs and projects rely on continuous monitoring to ensure that coastal restoration and habitat enhancement initiatives are successful.
- Posted August 8, 2022
Not So Quiet Polar Night: Arctic Creatures Found to be Active During Dark Part of the Year
Assumed to be largely dormant during the polar night, marine creatures were found to regulate their biological clocks and maintain activity in low light.
- Posted August 1, 2022
Summer 2022 Environmental Monitor Available Now
From the continuous monitoring occurring in the Susquehanna River Basin region of the United States to a volcanic crater lake in Costa Rica, thelatest edition of the Environmental Monitor covers a variety of remote monitoring methods.
- Posted July 11, 2022
Monitoring Water Pollution in Keweenaw Bay
Water pollution is not a niche concern of scientists but is instead a concern for all people, regardless of proximity to water.
- Posted July 5, 2022
Balancing Forest Biodiversity and Land Use Benefits
New meta-analysis paper pulls together data from 264 studies to explore ways of balancing forest biodiversity and wood production interests.
- Posted June 27, 2022
Protecting Endangered Species: Conducting Mussel Surveys
Endangered mussel surveys are a necessary step in project planning because the distribution of mussels and species assemblage relative to a planned project is critical to completing the required environmental documentation while protecting native species.
- Posted June 21, 2022
Protecting Endangered Species: Why Freshwater Mussels Matter
Though few people pay any mind to the occasional “clam” shell spotted along a river bank or lake, these small but mighty creatures are deeply important to water systems across the United States, and many of them...
- Posted June 14, 2022
Marine Cold Spells: The Flip Side of Global Warming
While not receiving as much attention as warming trends, marine cold spells can strongly impact marine life too, in complex ways.
- Posted June 7, 2022
Anguish of the Amazon: Climate Tipping Points and the Loss of Rainforest Resilience
“Our goal is to quantify the movement towards a tipping point, measured as a loss of resilience in the system. Resilience is essentially how quickly a system recovers from perturbations, in this case droughts for example.”
- Posted June 2, 2022
Staying Within Budget: Carbon Planning
Until the recent Yale study, the contribution of rivers and streams to the carbon dioxide budget were not appropriately considered.
- Posted May 3, 2022
IoT for Smarter Aquaculture
With aquaculture booming, IoT may be the future of the market--scaling up could be key to industry success.
- Posted April 11, 2022
Buoy Camera Research: Key for Regional Science Consortium
Lake Erie buoy camera data has turned out to be critical for researchers and the public alike. Camera images help give a more complete picture of waves.
- Posted March 28, 2022
Shapeshifting Rivers: The First Global River Delta Migration Database Offers Future Glimpse of the Planet’s Major Coastal Waterways
The first global river delta migration database can help coastal populations adapt as rivers change due to climate and anthropogenic effects.
- Posted February 8, 2022
The Frozen Frontier: Chasing Data in Antarctica
There’s more involved in a successful Antarctic voyage than meets the eye, including diverse technical know-how and diverse data gathering.
- Posted January 18, 2022
The Tiniest Cars: Understanding the Effects of Microplastics on Coral
A first of its kind study is unfolding on the effects of ubiquitous microplastics on coral in Hawaii.
- Posted December 20, 2021
