ESPM associate CE specialist Max Moritz is featured in this Christian Science Monitor article on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), a cooperative model where fire management practitioners and communities can share best practices – empowering them to participate in developing their own resiliency to wildfire. As climate change leads to hotter, drier summers, and populations grow in fire-prone regions, fire professionals have increasingly turned to strategies beyond suppression, or putting fires out as quickly as possible. “If we’re going to see more events that are more extreme ... we’re going to have to learn to live in tune with the natural hazards of the environment where we are,” says Moritz.
NPR | September 20, 2017
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ESPM assistant professor Arthur Middleton is highlighted in this NPR review of an award-winning book on the monumental journeys taken by wild animals. "The Elk of Greater Yellowstone" chapter, based on Middleton's research, follows the travel path of a single elk - GPS-collared adult female #35342, a member of the Cody herd - through Yellowstone National Park.
The conversation | September 20, 2017
ESPM assistant professor Jonas Meckling authored this article for the Conversation US on the US's solar industry growth and resulting price drops, and the potential impact of the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget, which would slash support for alternative energy. The authors note that levying duties on imported solar equipment will make solar power more expensive for businesses and consumers, which will reduce its competitiveness against other sources of energy.
California Magazine | September 20, 2017
ESPM alum Peter Oboyski (Ph.D. '11) is featured in this California magazine article on the Essig Museum of Entomology, where he is the collections manager. Oboyski chats about the museum and discusses a dozen or so species from the Essig's vast collection of over 6 million specimens. One of the largest university collections in North America, the Essig’s regional emphasis is primarily on California, but it also expands to the Pacific Rim, including the islands of the central Pacific. Oboyski, a moth specialist who earned his Berkeley Ph.D. in 2011, has identified nine new species himself—seven from Hawaii, and two from Tahiti.
NY Times | September 19, 2017
ESPM grad student Colin Carlson is featured in this New York Times article on a study recently published in Science Advances that suggests global climate change threatens parasites with extinction, which could have big consequences for ecosytems. The study was co-authored with ESPM grad student Eric Dougherty and alum Carrie Cizauskas. Stories on this topic have appeared in many sources around the world, including the Pacific Standard, Independent, Smithsonian, Xinhua, and Daily Californian.
Scientists: Climate Change May Wipe Out a Third of World's Parasites, with Disastrous Ripple Effects
Democracy Now! | September 15, 2017
ESPM grad student Colin Carlson is featured in this Democracy Now video segment on recently published research which revealed climate change is driving the mass extinction of parasites that are critical to natural ecosystems. Carlson notes that parasites serve important regulatory roles in ecosystems. With a changing climate, the loss of that stabilitzing role could produce opportunities for new patterns of wildlife in human disease.
Popular Science | September 13, 2017
ESPM grad student Colin Carlson is featured in this Popular Science article on the potential impacts of climate change on parasites. By tracking how parasites are moving and disappearing as the climate changes, Carlson and his fellow researchers predicted how parasite populations will shift as this process continues. They found that a third of all parasites face a risk of extinction.
Guardian | September 11, 2017
ESPM grad student Colin Carlson is featured in this Guardian article on potential impacts of climate change on parasites, which play a vital role in eocsystems. Major extinctions among parasites could lead to unpredictable invasions of surviving parasites into new areas. “If parasites go extinct, we are looking at a potential massive destabilisation of ecosystems [which] could have huge unexpected consequences,” Carlson said, with other parasites moving in to take advantage. “That doesn’t necessarily work out well for anyone, wildlife or humans.”