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Aerial drone image of Lake Jackson, Florida. Courtesy of PhD Student Austin Bush.
Dr. Sarah Lester studying the coral reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia.
PhD student Jennifer McHenry and her graduate professor study how seagrass beds provide societal benefits and support biodiversity with a grant from the National Academies Gulf Research Program.
Trina Merrick and Stephanie Pau with colleagues complete installation of tower-based remote sensing instruments, such as an eddy covariance flux system and a thermal camera on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to study carbon fluxes of a tropical forest canopy.
Chris Uejio receives a $1M CDC grant to address climate impact on health.
Stephanie Pau and colleagues show that increasing flowering activity in Panama is linked to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.