The angle of repose, wild turkeys, wood smoke in London, and more: May 4 weekly published research

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, fifteen new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including three open-access studies on seagrass, wood smoke during winter in London, and the surface area of bird bones. Check them out!

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Wildlife vulnerabilities to climate change, lay summaries for science papers, geoducks and more: Week of April 20 published research

Ocean Wave

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, twenty-four new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including studies on the ionospheric precursors of earthquakes, how the are burned by fires relates to water balance, and more. Check them out!

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Meet David Battisti, professor of atmospheric sciences

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David Battisti isn’t trying to save the world. He’s trying to understand it, he says. A professor of atmospheric sciences at the College of the Environment, he works to increase our collective knowledge on the global climate system and its natural variation. He’s interested in how the oceans, sea ice, atmosphere, and land interact and lead to variability in the climate—what we experience as weather. 

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