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The Spooky Rise of ‘Ghost Forests’ Along the Eastern Seaboard Photo: Jennifer S. Walker/Rutgers University–New Brunswick The impacts of climate change are going from spooky to downright scary. A new report chronicles the rise of ghost forests along the East Coast as sea level rise turns soils salty and inundates formerly dry land. Advertisement It’s well-documented that the climate crisis is pushing up sea levels and increasing flooding from high tides and sea surges. That’s putting p...

Coastal forests in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England (from Virginia through Massachusetts) have a mix of hardwoods and evergreen trees. They provide habitat for an array of rare plants and wildlife, store carbon and are valuable timber resources. Coastal forests along with adjacent salt marshes also help buffer inland areas from coastal storms. But sea-level rise is altering coastal forest ecosystems and “ghost forests” filled with dead trees are becoming a growing phenomenon in pa...

Lets Stop Asking People to Walk All Day: A Call for Easily Accessible Walk Time Estimation Kathryn M. Clifton, ICT4D Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist, Catholic Relief Services Kathryn M. Clifton, ICT4D Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist, Catholic Relief Services A program in Madagascar may have just changed the way international development programs operate, but we need an easy tool to take this to scale. CRS’ Daniel Andriantsimba considered wh...

Why does L.A. have so many COVID-19 cases? A lack of affordable housing and the resulting crowded apartments play a major role in L.A. County’s nearly 1.2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, USC experts say. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (Illustration/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Despite a leveling off of the COVID spike in Los Angeles in recent weeks, the city’s death toll continues to rise. It’s left people around Southern California and the rest of the coun...

The 5th Guangzhou Award Shortlist Released in Guangzhou News provided by Share this article Share this article GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable development is an essential issue in todays human society. The global spread of COVID-19 highlights the importance and urgency of sustainable development. A total of 273 initiatives from 175 cities and local governments in 60 countries and regions applied for the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which ful...

2 February 2021 As of January 2021, CASA is delighted to welcome back Dr Chen Zhong as Associate Professor in Urban Analytics. Chen previously worked with us as a Research Associate between 2014 and 2016.  Chen was trained as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) engineer. She obtained a BEng (2008), MEng (2010) both from Wuhan University, China, and a PhD from ETH Zurich (2014). Since 2016 she has been a Lecturer in Spatial Analysis at Kings College London. Her research i...

Herbarium project continues to progress Natalee Dula and Owen Smith work to organize and upload specimens for the herbarium into a GIS database. The herbarium is a core collection of dried plant specimens mounted, labeled and organized. More than two years ago, Dr. Tom Diggs dreamed of creating a small-scale herbarium on the University of North Georgias (UNG) Gainesville Campus. The herbarium would be a core collection of dried plant specimens mounted, labeled and organized. Once the informati...

Amrita University to set up centre for geospatial excellence Updated: Updated: Share Article Amrita University will soon establish a Centre for Geospatial Excellence on Spatial Analysis and Modelling. A release from the institution said the establishment was an outcome of an agreement it had inked with Esri India to establish the centre to promote development specific skills and technical know-how among academics, students and industry around geospatial technologies and latest tool kits like...

Share this article Share this article ResearchAndMarkets.coms offering. The global spatial genomics and transcriptomics market is projected to reach USD 404 million by 2025 from USD 178 million in 2020, at a CAGR of 17.8% during the forecast period. Market growth is largely driven by the increasing adoption of spatial genomics and transcriptomics analysis among small companies and startups, expanding applications in biomarker identification and drug discovery & development, and increasing inve...