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As the climate warms, outbreaks of spruce bark beetles in the northwest U. S. and Canada are prevalent. Spruce bark beetles have killed more than three million acres of spruce trees in Alaska in the past 15 years. They are not an invasive species in those areas, but their population had been held at low levels by very cold winters. Photo shows beetle-killed stand of spruce extending up the side of Porphyry Mountain near McCarthy in Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve in Alaska. (Photo: Adam Watson, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
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New Report Shows 'Unequivocal' Climate Warming
An important update on global warming, Global Climate Change: Its Impacts in the United States, has been completed and released June 16. This work, done by a team of climate experts from across the country and Canada, was co-chaired and co-edited by Jerry Melillo, senior scientist at the Ecosystems Center, and Thomas R. Karl and Thomas C. Peterson, both of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina.....More>>>>
Dr. Melillo was a featured presenter at a White House press conference June 16.
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ECOSYSTEMS CENTER IN THE MEDIA
Red Flag Raised on Climate Change in the Cape Cod Times was one of many news stories that featured Jerry Melillo as he presented highlights from Global Climate Change: Its Impacts in the United States.
Hugh Ducklow is featured in a podcast called Penguins in the Hot Seat. It was produced for the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence by Ari Shapiro of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Arctic scientist Linda Deegan's research is the subject of a story in Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an online magazine for K- 5 teachers: Counting Graylings on the Tundra.
MBL's Logan Science Journalism Program Fellows at the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, are blogging about their experiences at the research site.
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Ecosystems Center scientist Christopher Neill has been awarded a Bullard Fellowship by Harvard University for 2009-2010. He plans to spend his time in residence at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, combining his interests in Amazon science and journalism.
During his fellowship, Dr. Neill plans to synthesize Amazon ecological research that has been conducted by a large number of international researchers under the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA).... More>>>
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