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Closing the Methane Gap: Scaling up from the ecosystem to the globe

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Direct measurements of methane flux from wetlands are critical to our understanding of the global methane cycle. Due to the difficulty of deploying sophisticated sensors in wetlands, however, these data have been collected from relatively few locations around the planet. Nevertheless, they are are needed to improve global climate models. Dr. Karina Schäfer, Assistant Professor…

Undergraduates Learn with the LI-6400XT, Thanks to LEEF Grants

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is a rare but important plant species that is renowned for its medical uses. Collection from the wild, however, has placed the species at risk throughout its native range. Therefore, research that improves the quality of cultivated ginseng plants has value, both for the commercial product and for conservation of the…

Changing lives – One LEEF at a time

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

This is a guest contribution to NewsLine provided by Elise Wygant. Elise began her studies in plant physiology under Dr. Rebecca E. Drenovsky, a LEEF (LI-COR Environmental Education Fund) recipient at John Carroll University. Inspired to pursue science, now she is a doctoral student at Dr. Lisa Donovan’s Evolutionary Ecophysiology lab at the University of…

A Day in the Life of a Sea Ice Ecologist

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Dr. Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen, sea ice ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, recently completed a field campaign in which he and his team collected data and cores from sea ice. The photos below present a day’s work sampling the sea ice near Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland. Read more about this research… At the first look, not…

Studies in German Grasslands Reveal the Effects of Climate Change

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

In the heart of Germany, in the Lückenbach rivulet floodplain, the University of Giessen and the Hessian Agency for Environment and Geology operate the Environmental Monitoring and Climate Impact Research Station Linden. The research site is a 4.5-hectare, semi-natural permanent grassland typical of German lowlands. Grasslands like this represent roughly 13% of the agricultural and…