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Recent Blog Posts
- ERI Funded Projects: Brendon Owczarek working on climatology in Alaska! December 13, 2019
- ERI Funded Projects: Tessa Waters interning at NOAA’s Howard Marine Laboratory in Sandy Hook, NJ! December 11, 2019
- ERI Funded Projects: Parker Bartz designing a portable wind tunnel and researching wind erosion in Mongolia! December 9, 2019
- ERI Funded Projects: Greta Nelson interning at a Shellfish Hatchery in Dennis, MA! December 6, 2019
- ERI Funded Projects: Shijie Guo using ‘geomasking’ for environmental health studies at Dartmouth! December 4, 2019
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Funded ERI Project: Jorden Schreeder interning at the Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina
I spent this summer as a field research intern for the Owl Monkey Project (Proyect Mirikiná) in the Gran Chaco Ecoregion of Formosa, Argentina. I, along with 3 other interns, assisted Emily Briggs and Alba Garcia on their Ph.D. fieldwork, … Continue reading
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ERI Funded Projects: Tamika Whitenack exploring Food Justice at Alemany Farm
This summer, I was a Food Justice Intern with Alemany Farm. Alemany Farm is a 3.5 acre, organic farm in San Francisco that aims to increase environmental education and food security. The farm is completely open to the public, and … Continue reading
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Natural gas competes for scarce water resources
Like most colleges and many businesses and institutions, Vassar has been reporting reduced greenhouse gas emissions following our transition from heating oil to natural gas. Our Central Hudson electric grid also calculates reduced GHG emissions with its transition to gas … Continue reading
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New Climate Report draft
The New York Times reported August 9 on a draft of the national climate assessment, required by Congress to be updated every 4 years. The 673-page draft report focuses on changes already observed in the US, including increasing intensity of precipitation … Continue reading
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Natural Beauty at Risk
How will climate change affect our national parks? These natural areas cannot be protected from the global stresses of climate change, which threaten both plant and animal species. Is there anything park managers can do to prepare for coming changes in … Continue reading
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Spring Comes Sooner to Urban Heat Islands
Cities are often warmer than surrounding rural areas due to high impervious cover (cement, asphalt, etc.), a phenomenon known as the “urban heat island effect”. This effect has been shown to cause plants in urban environments to leaf out earlier … Continue reading
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Visualizing the Highs and Lows of Lake Mead
Lake Mead, above the Hoover Dam, is at its lowest level since it was first filled in 1937, and it has reached this record low two years in a row. Given that its lowest level generally occurs during late June … Continue reading
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