Browsing Posts of 'Liza Lester'
A guest post by Heather Lessig, a ConservationCorridor moderator and research technician in Nick Haddad’s lab at NC State LANDSCAPE corridors are among the most important conservation strategies in the face of global changes such as habitat fragmentation, habitat destruction, and climate change. Corridors are habitats that are typically long relative to their width, and [...]
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Starting and maintaining the conversation A guest post by Vicky Meretsky, associate professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs Meretsky and colleagues propose a national conservation-support program to help knit together state level efforts and larger federal programs, such as the recently established Landscape Conservation Cooperatives delineated here, and prevent species from [...]
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Josh Miller is one among a small cadre of ecologists looking at living ecosystems through the relics of their dead. by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer Flags mark bone locations as field assistant Jared Singer maps a carcass near a lake in Yellowstone National Park. Credit, Joshua Miller. ________________ JOSH Miller likes to call himself [...]
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The UM-Baltimore County ecologist talks about geographical context in field research and why he thinks the value of nature is more than the sum of it’s services. by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer Listen to the podcast on the Field Talk page, or download it from iTunes. Ellis collaborated with Laura Martin and Bernd Blossey of [...]
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A Colombian coal mine opens a treasure chest of fossils. By Liza Lester Edwin Cadena and his 60-million-year-old giant “coal turtle” discovered in Cerrejón coal mine, Colombia, South America. Credit, Cadena. Used by permission. IT was large, that much was obvious. When Edwin Cadena first saw the fossil in 2005, he thought he might be [...]
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