The San Diego Botanic Garden has launched a series of collaborations with several tribal communities to address climate change, drought and wildfire risks while promoting ecological restoration and cultural preservation. @jd__walker
https://t.co/MOong8MEBK
Strange sight: Large portions of #JordanLake dried and turned to mud flats. This reservoir supports heaps of biodiversity at the mouth of the Haw river… or, it did… @HawRiverkeeper@NCDEQ@WRAL
video credit: @zdturner94
50 climate leaders were selected by @grist to tell their stories & drive innovative solutions to our planet’s biggest problems. @GRSchug is among those #grist50 🎉 bringing biological anthropology to the forefront of climate action 🔍 https://t.co/vMbAzIBXcH
OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass.
Readers, they're all glass.
Congrats to Dr. Louis-Marie Bobay, our 2023 @UNCG Early Career Research Excellence Award winner. 🏆
@lmbobay of @bio_uncg (& @UNCG_CompSci@GreensboroNano) is recognized for his scholarship on the evolution of microbial genomes & populations.
📖 more at https://t.co/9bd4zHKuWr
Congratulations to @Alyssa_Young3 et al. for winning the 2023 Robert P. McIntosh Award for best recent paper in Vegetation Ecology!! We had a wonderful pool of papers the year, so thanks to all finalists for submitting their papers. Congrats again Alyssa!!
Why do plant names change?
And why do these changes make life rather difficult for plant lovers, and even for the taxonomists?
Prof Peter Linder gives 3 reasons for name changes, and tells us why they’re often important.
#Taxonomy
Sassafras in early spring is a burst of sunshine just when you need it most. ☀️ This small native tree grows in forests and old fields in the eastern U.S.: it's common in our area!
More about sassafras: https://t.co/LFykdPdEJB
Will never be able to fully express my gratitude for my amazing lab, friends, family, support team, and so, so many others for helping me get to this point of being Dr. Frost. #PhDone
Used in nonstick coating and food packaging, GenX has been found to impact a variety of bodily functions. Learn more on Wednesday when we're joined by Dr. Ho Young Lee for his seminar on, "Consequences of Pulmonary Exposure to GenX" @UNCG_CAS