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Back from another trip to the mountains, and off to the swamp in a few minutes. I'm WAY behind in processing photos since I've been outside more than inside (not complaining). As a break from plant pics, here are a couple from a hike to Catawba Falls, on the upper reaches of the Catawba River, in Pisgah National Forest near Old Fort, McDowell County, North Carolina.
My new ecosystem notebook. I needed a new pocket-sized book, and this little guy was a less expensive, more environmentally friendly version of a Moleskine. It also came in black, but I decided to go for some colour this time around.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Drought, bark beetles and wildfires are dramatically altering our Southwest forests. Past fire damage and bark beetle killed trees form a mosaic pattern of living and dead forest in this view looking east from the White Mountains. The cloud on the horizon is the smoke plume from the Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire (see link below), currently raging through the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
- White Mountains, Apache National Forest, Arizona
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at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
Spotted during a surveillance flight Monday, manatees are taking refuge from the cold weather in a mitigation feature built by SFWMD just south of Port of the Islands in Collier County.
Completed in April 2016, the three deep pools ensure the local manatee population continues to have a warm water refuge in the Port of the Islands area that’s compatible with restoration efforts at Picayune Strand. When complete, the CERP project will re-establish a more natural flow of water to 55,000 acres of wetlands and uplands in the Western Everglades.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
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Firefighters keep watch as the controlled prairie burn is completed at the Portsmouth Site in mid-December 2011.
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant firefighters recently completed a prescribed fire, or controlled burn, of an 18-acre prairie at the site, two weeks ahead of a regulatory deadline.
“Burning the prairie in a controlled manner stimulates the germination of prairie grasses and reduces the invasion of woody plants to maintain a healthy prairie ecosystem,” said DOE Site Director Vince Adams.
The prairie ecosystem was the result of remediation of former lime sludge lagoons that settled out waste lime from the plant’s water treatment plant.
Caribou, North America’s wild reindeer, have lives apart from their famous role on Christmas Eve. Reindeer, of course, is another common name for caribou (Rangifer tarandus) a large, cold-adapted, herding herbivore related to deer, elk and moose.
If reindeer had red, glowing noses, they’d probably be a lot easier to study in the wild. To learn more about the biology behind these arctic antler-bearers, we only have to turn to our colleagues at the USGS Alaska Science Center, (alaska.usgs.gov) who conduct a wide variety of earth science and ecological science surveys throughout our northernmost state.
We asked USGS caribou (and large mammal) expert Layne Adams, Ph.D., about the lives of caribou for those other 364 days of the year. Adams has studied caribou in Alaska for more than 30 years, helping land managers understand the best way to manage this important species. Adams, a wildlife biologist at the Alaska Science Center, sat down last year and did an online chat with the Washington Post a few years ago.
Here are other Qs and As about reindeer that Dr. Adams answered:
Why are reindeer sometimes called caribou and caribou sometimes called reindeer?
“Reindeer” and “caribou” are two common names for the same species (Rangifer tarandus), which occurs throughout the circumpolar North.
“Reindeer” is the common name for Rangifer in Europe and Asia, whereas “caribou” is the North American name.
The name “caribou” is a French derivative of a Native American word that means snow shoveler, which is a reference to the fact that caribou are often pawing through the snow to find food underneath.
Read more here: www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/the-other-364-... (Photo by David Gustine,USGS)
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
By far my favourite combination: an Ecosystem notebook + a black leather VadeMecum Pocket Cover.
The ecosystem notebook is exactly the same as the Moleskine. The cover fits like a glove.
Mountains provide a number of ecosystem goods and services for both upstream communities and downstream users.
In mountain ecosystems, the need for water is often a cause for concern, both in upstream and downstream locations. In many places, water availability and management has an increased focus due to the prognosis for climate-induced changes. to water production in mountain regions. Very small temperature changes can lead to very large changes in water volume, both in the short term (such as extreme events) and across seasons (for example if precipitation that in past years has fallen as snow and been stored in the snowpack/glaciers, instead falls as rain and flows downstream immediately).
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Traffic on the Kahayan bridge is obscured by smoke. Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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Average annual percentage growth rate of GDP per capita at market prices based on constant local currency. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using 1995 official exchange rates. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products.
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“I can sell up to 30 rabbits a month. With the money I run the house, pay for my children’s school, and still have some left to set aside just in case.”
– Rose
Picture and quote by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Link to video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIzZvMBNgc&feature=youtu.be
The Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Coordination Board met on Feb. 3 in Tumwater. Discussions included the EPA Lead Organization work plan development, 2011 target setting, and the draft charter for the Puget Sound coordinated ecosystem-monitoring program. In addition there were updates provided on the 2011 legislative session, the state budget, the Action Agenda revision process.
Rich Peterson, Ron Wesen, Teri King, Dow Contantine, Linda Berry-Mariast, Dan Wrye, Sam Anderson, Bill Dewey, Kathy Fletcher, Chris Davis, Jeanne Burbidge, Dave Somers, John Calhoun, David Troutt, Randy Kinley, Bob Turner, Col. Anthony Wright, Linda Anderson-Carnahan, Josh Baldi, Margen Carlson, Naki Stevens, Ginny Broadhurst, and Partnership staff Lynda Ransley
Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
The Parque Nacional Cajas (Cajas National Park) is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador. It is located about 30 km west of Cuenca. It covers an area of 285 km² and ranges in altitude between 3100m and 4450m above sea level. It offers a tundra vegetation on a jagged landscape of hills and valleys. The park contains about 270 lakes and lagoons. Glaciers shaped the landscape of the Cajas leaving U-shaped valleys and ravines. The Cajas provides about 60% of the drinking water for the Cuenca area.
This small pond is located at an altitude of just over 4000 meters (13,000 feet).
Humidity, low temperature, and high altitude with low atmospheric pressure create an ecosystem that accumulates organic material in the soil that is able to retain water. The high grassland ecosystem (páramo) contains plants suitably adapted to this unique ecosystem, many of them endemic to the Cajas.
Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum