Forests along the foggy coastline of California are likely to experience a warmer and possibly less foggy future. Because summertime fog augments the water supply to forests during a time of year when conditions are otherwise warm and dry, less fog water input will likely place trees at higher risk of water stress and drought-induced mortality. Research by grad student Sara Baguskas seeks to understand how variation in fog-water...
Read MoreAn Earthweek weekly news snippet featured on our Earth Gate web page is titled “Human Stink a Powerful Draw … For Mosquitoes.” It goes on to state that “Humans stink more than any other members of the animal kingdom, at least according to mosquitoes. The discovery was made by researchers trying new approaches to combat mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, and yellow fever at Holland’s Wageningen...
Read MorePam Sturner, the Executive Director of the Leopold Leadership Program at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, recently wrote to inform us that alumna “Dr. Dawn Wright has been selected as one of twenty Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2011. The Leopold Leadership Program is a competitive fellowship for outstanding academic environmental scientists who are also actively engaged in outreach to decision-makers and the...
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