June in New England is a long stretch of long-lit days. When I was a PhD student, my Junes were the peak…
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Conservation Reading, Walking, Wishing
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Biodiversity Hidden in Plain Sight: the Secret Tree Diversity of Cultural National Parks in the East
Last summer, my daughter received All Aboard! National Parks, a whimsical board book that devotes full-page spreads of colorful, kid-friendly illustrations to nine…
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Climate Change Coming Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain Ecosystems
As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breathe” out part of that carbon dioxide back…
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Conservation Book Review: The Feather Thief
I’ve got my conference roadtrip routine dialed in. This spring I drove to the Northeast Natural History Conference (215 miles each way)…
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Biodiversity Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side…
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Biodiversity National Parks are for the Birds
Happy National Parks week! While I tend to plan trips around plants — Thuja plicata in Olympic National Park, Lathyrus japonicas at…
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Climate Change An Epic Joshua Tree Roadtrip & the Reproductive Ecology of an Iconic Southwest Plant
Think of your most amazing four-state roadtrip. How much data did you collect between stops at Disney Land and the hotel pool?…
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Biodiversity Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
As flowers began to bloom and leaves slowly emerge in the northern hemisphere this time of year, most people are thinking about…
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Biodiversity The “Big Ideas” in Ecology
If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…
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Biodiversity Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: Trees and Student Performance
Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been…
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Collaboration Not Seeing the Grass for the Trees
I appreciate repetition. My favorite class in high school was AP Chemistry, but I think I owe most of my AP success…
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Collaboration Conservations Genetics, Non-academic Coauthors & Erdős Numbers
I spent a week in Washington DC about two weeks before the government shutdown. Part of my conservation science postdoc fellowship involves…