The following is a Boston University research article written by Barbara Moran and with the title above: Suchi Gopal bursts into her classroom, buzzing with energy. The 11 graduate students parked behind glowing computer monitors rouse themselves from reverie. It’s late in the semester and they are preoccupied with their final projects. But Gopal has more to teach. “Aha!” she claps with delight. “Today we will do some math!” She grabs...
Read MoreThe following is a Public Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), dated March 23, 2015 and titled “Atlantic Ocean overturning found to slow down already today”: The gradual but accelerating melting of the Greenland ice-sheet, caused by man-made global warming, is a possible major contributor to the slowdown. Further weakening could impact marine ecosystems and sea level as well as weather systems in the US...
Read MoreSara Baguskas has been awarded a USDA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which will fund her for two years to study the effects of coastal fog on water use in agriculture. She plans to integrate the effect of coastal fog on the physical environment and plant water use to improve estimates of evapotranspiration from farms and to inform farmer water use decisions during the summer months. She will be mentored by Michael Loik, a plant...
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