EcoPress

MALIBU Land Surface Data Capture Field Campaign at Pawnee National Grasslands: Results and Future Efforts

September 22, 2016 by NREL EcoPress

By Lindsey Middleton Lindsey Middleton is the Communications Specialist at the North Central Climate Science Center (NCCSC), one of eight regional climate centers created by the US Department of Interior to help meet the changing needs of land and resource managers across the US. Feel free to Like NCCSC on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. The first successful field campaign of the MALIBU (Multi AngLe Imaging Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function sUAS) system was conducted this summer at Pawnee National […]

Categories: Climate Change, Featured, From the Field • Tags: climate change, land use change, landscape ecology

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NREL/ESS Publications: August 2016

September 12, 2016 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during August 2016. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print: Berryman, E., M. G. Ryan, J. B. Bradford, T. J. Hawbaker, and R. Birdsey. 2016. Total belowground carbon flux in subalpine forests is related to leaf area index, soil nitrogen, and tree height. Ecosphere 7(8): e01418. 10.1002/ecs2.1418 Gwenzi, D., M.A. Lefsky, V.P. Suchdeo, and D.J. Harding. Prospects of the ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Boone, Lefsky, Newman, Reid, Romme, Ryan, Stabach

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Home Is Where The Citizen Science Is

September 8, 2016 by NREL EcoPress

By Sarah Newman Sarah Newman is part of the Communications Committee for CitSci.org, a community-driven website that provides tools for any new or existing research. When e-coli levels spiked in area waters, Virginia Master Naturalists stepped in to help. As part of a citizen science project, they conducted pre and post-intervention data collection to help determine whether or not management actions were reducing e-coli abundance. Why? Because Virginia is a place they call home. And a new paper by a […]

Categories: Shorts • Tags: citizen science, clean water, water

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Learning About Sustainable Management of National Parks and Agent–Based Models

August 25, 2016 by NREL EcoPress

By Melody Zarria Melody Zarria, a research assistant visiting from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM) – came to Colorado State University (CSU) in Summer 2015, to work on modeling cattle grazing in the high Andean wetlands of Peru as part of a long-term collaborative project between CSU and UNALM. She discusses her lessons learned working with Drs. Randy Boone and Gillian Bowser on Agent Based Modeling (ABM). I studied Animal Science at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), […]

Categories: Featured, Grassland Ecology, Mountain Ecology, This is how I did it... • Tags: Agent Based Modeling, ecological models, Gillian Bowser, grassland ecology, National Parks and Monuments, Randall Boone, spatial ecology, spatial modeling

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NREL/ESS Publications: July 2016

August 11, 2016 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during July 2016. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Chambers, A., Rattan L., and Paustian, K.. Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential of US Croplands and Grasslands: Implementing the 4 per Thousand Initiative. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 71, no. 3 (May 1, 2016): 68A–74A. Gwenzi, D.; Lefsky, M.A. Spatial Modeling of Lidar-Derived Woody Biomass Estimates Collected Along Transects in a Heterogeneous […]

Categories: Recent Publications • Tags: Aldridge, de Silva, Evangelista, Lefsky, Luizza, Paustian, Renwick, Rocca, Stohlgren, Wann, West

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NREL/ESS Publications: JUNE 2016

July 8, 2016 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during June 2016. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Alster, C. J., A. Koyama, N. G. Johnson, M. D. Wallenstein, and J. C. von Fischer (2016), Temperature sensitivity of soil microbial communities: An application of macromolecular rate theory to microbial respiration. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JG003343. Andrés, Pilar, John C. Moore, Rodney T. Simpson, Greg Selby, Francesca Cotrufo, Karolien Denef, […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Cotrufo, Del Grosso, Denef, Haddix, Koyama, Lefsky, Moore, Newman, Ogle, Parton, Paustian, Reid, Selby, Simpson, Soong, Wall, Wallenstein

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East Africa IRES #5: The river that doesn’t flow

June 20, 2016 by stacyjlynn

Blog Post by Holly Cox, 2015-16 EA-IRES Fellow June 15, 2016 After visiting a few homesteads (called “manyattas” in the Samburu language) during our first week of field research in Samburu County, Kenya, I have begun seeing patterns and similarities in water resource locations and management from my interviews with the women. Generally, the women have two options for water retrieval in the places that we have visited so far: a local borehole well, or the “River”. Walking to a flowing […]

Categories: Education, From the Field • Tags: clean water, EA-IRES, East Africa, livelihoods, Pastoral Systems, soil, water, watershed science

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East Africa IRES #4: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) visit

June 19, 2016 by stacyjlynn

Post by Hollie Skibstead, 2015-16 EA-IRES Fellow World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Global and East African Headquarters Today (June 10th, 2015), on our last day in Nairobi before going to Samburu, we had the opportunity to visit the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF). I’ve had some knowledge about the kinds of research that ICRAF is doing here in Kenya for a couple of years, so I was especially excited to visit with the researchers there. I first learned about ICRAF in 2014, […]

Categories: Education, From the Field • Tags: EA-IRES, East Africa, ICRAF, Lynn, Moriasi, soils

NREL/ESS Publications: May 2016

June 15, 2016 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during May 2016. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Chambers, A., Rattan L., and Paustian, K. Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential of US Croplands and Grasslands: Implementing the 4 Per Thousand Initiative. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 71, no. 3 (May 1, 2016): 68A–74A. doi:10.2489/jswc.71.3.68A. Monroe, A.P., Edmunds, D.R. and Aldridge, C.L. Effects of Lek Count Protocols on Greater Sage-grouse Population […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Aldridge, Cotrufo, Denef, Edmunds, Monroe, Paustian, Romme, Wall

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