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Land Use Change, Ecosystem Resilience and Zoonotic Spillover Risk

Biodiversity loss is one of the most severe global environmental problems caused by habitat loss, leading to functional diversity changes and profound cascading effects on the abundance, composition, and ecology of fauna and flora. These changes affect species interactions and ecological function and services, with impacts that can reach human health and well-being, primarily through…
Impacts of Increased Light Transmittance on Ocean Heating, Primary Productivity, and Carbon Cycling Across a Pacific Arctic Continental Shelf Gradient

Seasonal sea ice in the Pacific Arctic region has declined significantly, with large portions of this region becoming ice-free by mid-summer. This Pacific Arctic sector is also among the most biologically productive marine ecosystems in the world and acts as an important sink and perhaps seasonal source of carbon. Although sea ice is a dominant…
Co-creating Research and Education Capacities to Understand, Visualize, and Mitigate Climate-Change Impact Cascades and Inequities in Central Mexico

In a rapidly urbanizing and climate-changing world, inter-basin water supply megaprojects are on the rise, with huge energy, greenhouse gas, and water injustice implications. These projects are subject to perverse positive feedbacks such that they increase climate change, and thus increase the water scarcity used to justify them in the first place. This project uses…
LTER-PIE: The Impact of Changing Landscapes and Climate on Interconnected Coastal Ecosystems

This project extends ongoing research at the Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site. The overall objective of the long-term project is to develop a predictive understanding of the responses of a linked watershed-marsh-estuarine system in northeastern Massachusetts to rapid environmental change. Clark University’s role in the project is to create time…
Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) – A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region, 2025-2030

The Pacific Arctic region (PAR) has had the most spatially extensive loss of seasonal sea ice of any of the Arctic marginal seas. The northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are among the most productive marine ecosystems in the Arctic and are important carbon sinks and seasonal sources of organic materials. The recent shifts in sea…

George Perkins Marsh Institute

Land Use Change, Ecosystem Resilience and Zoonotic Spillover Risk

Impacts of Increased Light Transmittance on Ocean Heating, Primary Productivity, and Carbon Cycling Across a Pacific Arctic Continental Shelf Gradient

Co-creating Research and Education Capacities to Understand, Visualize, and Mitigate Climate-Change Impact Cascades and Inequities in Central Mexico

LTER-PIE: The Impact of Changing Landscapes and Climate on Interconnected Coastal Ecosystems

Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) – A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region, 2025-2030

George Perkins Marsh Institute

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