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The Next Generation Careers initiative aims to forge connections between academic faculty and administrators, the private sector, government, non-governmental organizations and professional societies interested in environmental biology.
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We run interactive courses and workshops to help you gain the skills and tools you need to navigate changes in funding, policy, and technology.Read More

Journals & Publications

Many agricultural water protection policies around the world recommend 5 to 50 m wide uncropped buffers around water bodies to protect wetlands from contamination by fertilizers and pesticides. In the April issue of Ecosphere, Sawatzky and Fahrig found that such wetland buffers do not effectively protect wetlands from contamination by agricultural contaminants, but conserving ~40% uncropped land within a 150–300 m radius of wetlands may alleviate such contamination.

Ecosphere