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RESEARCH

The Ecosystems Center conducts research in projects from Alaska, Sweden and Russia in the Arctic to the Antarctic, from the streams and pastures of Brazil to the estuaries of New England... More>>>


EDUCATION

The Ecosystems Center is actively involved in education in a variety of ways....More>>>

Semester in Environmental Science
The Semester in Environmental Science (SES) is a 15-week fall semester at the Ecosystems Center.... More>>>

Brown/MBL Graduate Program
Four students are working with Ecosystems Center scientists in the MBL’s graduate program with Brown University... More>>>





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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)

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.




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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Sediment traps in the Sargasso Sea provide continuous record of oceanic fluxes

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SCIENTIFIC STAFF NEWS
Chris Neill
Chris Neill
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>>>





RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Straza, T.R.A., M. T. Cottrell, H. W. Ducklow, and D. L. Kirchman. 2009. Geographic and phylogenetic variation in bacterial biovolume as revealed by protein and nucleic acid staining. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 4028-4034

Kirchman, D.L., X. A. G. Moran and H. Ducklow. 2009. Microbial growth in the polar oceans – role of temperature and potential impact of climate change. Nature Reviews Microbiology 7:451-459.

Neill, C., M. O. Bezerra, R. McHorney and C. B. O’Dea. 2009. Distribution, species composition and management implications of seed banks in southern New England coastal plain ponds. Biological Conservation 142:1350-1361.

Montes-Hugo, M. A., H. Ducklow, and O. M. Schofield. 2009. Contribution by different marine bacterial communities to particulate beam attenuation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 379:13-22.

Johnson, D.S., J.W. Fleeger and L. A. Deegan. 2009. Large-scale manipulations reveal that top-down and bottom-up controls interact to alter habitat utilization by saltmarsh fauna. Marine Ecology Progress Series 377:33-41.

Fox, S. E., M. Teichberg, Y.S. Olsen, L. Heffner and I. Valiela. 2009. Restructuring of benthic communities in eutrophic estuaries: lower abundance of prey leads to trophic shifts from omnivory to grazing. Marine Ecology Progress Series 380:43-57.

Huang, S. and M. Conte. 2009. Source/process apportionment of major and trace elements in sinking particles in the Sargasso Sea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73(1): 65-90.

Montes-Hugo, M., S. C. Doney, H. W. Ducklow, W. Fraser, D. Martinson, S. E. Stammerjohn and O. Schofield. 2009. Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Science 323: 1470-1473.

Tang, J., P.V. Bolstad and J.G. Martin, 2009. Soil carbon fluxes and stocks in a Great Lakes forest chronosequence. Global Change Biology, 15: 145-155.

Bowen, J. L., and I. Valiela. 2008. Using delta15N to assess coupling between watersheds and estuaries in temperate and tropical regions. Journal of Coastal Research 24(3) 804-813.

Cardon, Z. G., D. W. Gray, and L. A. Lewis. 2008. The green algal underground – evolutionary secrets of desert cells. BioScience 58(2): 114-122

Ducklow, H. W. 2008. Long-term studies of the marine ecosystem along the west Antarctic Peninsula. Deep-Sea Research II 55:1945-1948.