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A forest with many scarce branches, as the trees have already lost their leaves for winter.

Jul 17, 2018

Global Change Fellows Author New Publications

Several current and alumni SE CASC Global Change Fellows have recently published articles in peer-reviewed journals. Balik, JA, BW Taylor, SE Washko, SA Wissinger. High interspecific variation in nutrient excretion within a…

The audience pays close attention during presentations at the Southeast Ecological Drought Workshop.

Jun 14, 2018

Workshop Participants Discuss Impacts and Management of Drought in the U.S. Caribbean

More than 50 scientists and natural and cultural resource managers gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 30-31 to collaborate at a workshop organized by the USGS National Climate…

Apr 23, 2018

Integration of Ecosystem Services and Decision Making: The Why and The How

This post was written by Sarah Parsons, Spring 2018 Global Change Fellow. On a beautiful spring day, amidst the blooming redbuds and leafing Bradford Pear trees, the Southeast…

Apr 9, 2018

Intergenerational research on Indigenous agricultural knowledge, climate resilience, and food security in the Caribbean

Dominique David-Chavez is an Indigenous Caribbean scholar, PhD Candidate at Colorado State University, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Norma Ortiz is an Indigenous grandmother, retired school counselor, and…

Apr 3, 2018

Forecasting Urbanization and Future Water Demands

2015-16 Global Change Fellow Georgina Sanchez, along with co-authors including USGS Research Ecologist Adam Terando and Faculty Affiliate Ross Meentemeyer, recently published results of research in the journal Water Resources…

Mar 29, 2018

A Trip to the Hill

Matthew Jurjonas, PhD Candidate, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, College of Natural Resources, NC State, wrote this account of a recent trip to Washington, DC. His advisor is SE…

Mar 14, 2018

Urban Tree Growth Responds to Water Stress

A recent article describes findings from research on SE CSC projects by NC State PI Steve Frank, Integrating the Effects of Global and Local Climate Change on Wildlife in North America, Tree…

Mar 1, 2018

Where Coat-Changing Animals are both White and Brown: Important Regions for Potential Climate Adaptation

Former Global Change Fellow Marketa Zimova is co-author on a new paper published in Science, Winter color polymorphisms identify global hot spots for evolutionary rescue from climate change, which presents results of…

Feb 26, 2018

The Benefits for Invertebrates of Leaving Behind Biomass Harvest Residues

This is a summary of research by Global Change Fellows Steven Grodsky (2012-14) and Sarah Fritts (2011-13), along with Faculty Affiliate Chris Moorman, NC State Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources,…

Feb 23, 2018

It Takes More than Flowers: How Urban Heat Affects Bee Populations

This post was written by Steve Frank, Southeast CSC Principal Investigator and Faculty Affiliate, summarizing work on SE CSC project, Consequences of Urbanization and Climate Change on Human and Ecosystem Health. It…