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Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Sue Nichols, nichols@msu.edu - February 2, 2021 All that’s local is a lot more global, and scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away. California fires meet hurricanes, September 2020, image by NASA Earth Observatory, Joshua Stevens Recent global calamities – the pandemic, wildfires, floods – are spurring interdisciplinary scientists to nudge aside the fashionable First Law of Geography that dictates “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” Geography, and by association, ecology, has largely followed what’s known as Tobler’s Law, which took hold in the early 1970s. But then came the novel coronavirus apparently has leapt from wildlife meat markets in China to the world in a matter of months. Global climate change creates conditions ripe for infernos in the North American west and Australia. Extreme Ohio flooding in 2018 gave way to sediments and excessive nutrients to dump into the Gulf of Mexico to the tune of some 300 square kilometers.
E-Mail IMAGE: Historic wildfires meet tropical cyclones across the United States, underscoring the vast expanse local events can have an impact. view more Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, Joshua Stevens Recent global calamities - the pandemic, wildfires, floods - are spurring interdisciplinary scientists to nudge aside the fashionable First Law of Geography that dictates everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Geography, and by association, ecology, has largely followed what s known as Tobler s Law, which took hold in the early 1970s. But then came the novel coronavirus apparently has leapt from wildlife meat markets in China to the world in a matter of months. Global climate change creates conditions ripe for infernos in the North American west and Australia. Extreme Ohio flooding in 2018 gave way to sediments and excessive nutrients to dump into the Gulf of Mexico to the tune of some 300 square kilometers.