Address from Mark Urban launches new YIBS Center for Biodiversity and Global Change
On Thursday evening, YIBS launched the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change with its first seminar. Mark Urban, MESc
Ecology
Nature article by YIBS affiliated faculty, Hutchinson postdoc, & colleagues
In a Nature article just published with their colleagues, YIBS Affiliated Faculty Peter Raymond (Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Yale School of the Environment, or YSE) and YIBS Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow Taylor Maavara (also based at YSE) report findings from their study of nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas. Their team found that N2O emissions are rising at a “devastating” rate -- outpacing predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to Maavara
Program in Eco-Evolutionary Interactions
A Giant Has Fallen
Karl K. Turekian, a pioneering Yale geochemist who examined an uncommonly broad range of topics in planetary science — including the sediments of the deep seas, the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, meteorite strikes, and the composition of moon rocks — died March 15 in Branford. He was 85. The cause was cancer.Remembering Karl by Rose Rita Riccitelli, Assistant Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)A Giant has Fallen
