Month: November 2020
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Prescribed fire and soil microbial communities in a native perennial grassland
Through a collaboration with SPAWAR (Dawn Lawson), SERG (Tom Zink), the USGS and others, we had the opportunity to study the effects of a prescribed burn experiment on soil microbial communities in a perennial grassland on San Clemente Island. Prescribed fire is a potential tool for controlling exotic annual grasses and restoring the native perennial…
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Voices of the Sea Ice
Voices of the Sea Ice: engaging an Arctic community to communicate impacts of climate change David Lipson, Kim Reasor, Kååre Sikuaq Erickson The predominantly Inupiat people of Utqiaġvik, Alaska are among those who will be most impacted by climate change and the loss of Arctic sea ice in the near future. Subsistence hunting of marine…