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FCE III — Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research
The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site seeks to understand how global climate change and shifting approaches to water management affects the Florida Everglades and the 6 million residents in the region. By conducting extended-duration research in freshwater wetlands, mangrove swamps, and shallow seagrass communities of Florida Bay, the FCE LTER employs…
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Conserving Small Natural Features with Large Ecosystem Functions in Urbanizing Landscapes
Many landscapes have small natural features whose importance for biodiversity or ecosystem services belies their small size. Management challenges for these areas include: uncertainties over their location and contributions to ecosystem services; tensions between private property rights and public rights to environmental protection; and the spatial mismatch between the broad, regional accrual of beneficial services…
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Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Migration, Transformation and Sustainability
There is currently unprecedented concern over involuntary migration globally affecting insecurity and human rights. However, both domestic and international migration has enormous transformative potential for individuals and societies. Existing theories of transformation fail to recognize both positive and negative impacts of the movement of people. This gap limits explanations and intervention strategies for sustainability. The…
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Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security
Despite significant attention from governments, donor agencies, and NGOs, food security remains an unresolved challenge in the context of global human welfare. Both technical and conceptual limits have prevented the collection and analysis of rich empirical datasets with high temporal frequency over large spatial extents necessary to investigate how changes to seasonal precipitation patterns are…
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Linkages and Interactions between Urban Food Security and Rural Agricultural Systems
Meeting urban food demand due to population growth, the changing nature of food consumption patterns, and the vulnerability of both local and regional food production to environmental variability presents future challenges. Globalization and international flows and trade of food and commodities are key aspects of how urban areas will meet future food demand. But urban…
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Understanding Cross-Scale Interactions of Trade and Food Policy to Improve Resilience to Drought Risk
Food security in regions affected by drought is influenced by a complex set of interactions between hydrological, agricultural, and social systems. Previous models examining the impact of drought on food security have not incorporated food trade and food movements at fine spatial scales, yet these components are critical parts of regional food systems. In sub-Saharan…
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Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) — A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region (Phase 1)
Several regionally critical marine sites in the Pacific Arctic sector that have very high biomass and are focused foraging points for apex predators, have been reoccupied during multiple international cruises. The data documenting the importance of these ecosystem “hotspots” provide a growing marine time-series from the northern Bering Sea to Barrow Canyon at the boundary…
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Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) — A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region, 2019-2024
The Pacific Arctic Region (PAR) is experiencing major reductions in seasonal sea ice and increases in seawater temperatures. A key uncertainty is how the marine ecosystem will respond to these shifts in the timing of spring sea ice retreat or delays in fall sea ice formation. Recent observations of reduced sea ice extent and duration…
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Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)-A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region (Phase 2)
Within the Pacific Arctic region, the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are among the most productive marine ecosystems.Recent shifts in seasonal sea ice cover are having profound consequences for seasonal phytoplankton production as well affecting intimately linked upper trophic level species, including those harvested locally for subsistence. Many organisms are changing their distribution, migration and…
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Engaging Students in Science for International Decision Making
Addressing global environmental issues involves working at the intersection of science and decision making. Graduate students and early career researchers who engage in environmental research, however, have few meaningful opportunities within academia to gain the knowledge and training on how their research can be employed for social innovation and collective impacts. This project provides an…
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