NEWS
Hobbie Elected to American Academy; Peterson and Hobbie Honored by ASLO
Two scientists at the Ecosystems Center have recently received major national honors and awards. John Hobbie was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
Streams and rivers are effective at removing nitrates at low concentrations but are unable to process increasing amounts of anthropogenic nitrogen, according to a recent paper in Nature by Bruce Peterson and Suzanne Thomas...
Ecosystems Center director Jerry Melillo and MBL adjunct and visiting scientists Robert Howarth and James Galloway helped to organize the N2007 symposium, held October 1-5 in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil....
The southwestern Brazilian Amazon is one of the world’s largest agricultural frontiers. Native vegetation and pastures are rapidly being converted to heavily mechanized row-crop agriculture, including soybean and corn. Researchers from MBL’s Ecosystems Center and Brown University are studying how regional land cover and land use change affect carbon (CO2) and nitrogen (N2O) emissions to the atmosphere....
Jerry M. Melillo of the Ecosystems Center was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October. The academy recognized Dr. Melillo for his work on soil biogeochemistry, global modeling and applying science to climate policy....
Two scientists, Zoe G. Cardon of the University of Connecticut and Jianwu (Jim) Tang of the Chicago Botanic Garden, have joined the Ecosystems Center staff....
Rita Oliveira Monteiro conducts her graduate research in some of Cape Cod’s most picturesque locations: Trunk River off Falmouth’s Surf Drive, Wing Pond in North Falmouth....
The tundra of the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site on the North Slope of Alaska sits above hundreds of meters of frozen ground (permafrost)...
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