resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @BSRnews: To feed the world, don't grow more--use existing resources better. Great @ensia piece on #waste: http://t.co/pDaQ95JtGz by @Gl… May 25, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MarkAndrachuk: "How many qualitative interviews is enough?" via @ECGGroup and @jenlove23 http://t.co/JWcrY5y9V2 #ecrchat #phdchat May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun end to SRC Futures panel with a good discussion on ingredients & potential for a "good" #Anthropocene. May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: USA
2011 precipitation anomalies in USA
From US’s National Weather Service – big precipitation anomalies in US this past year. The purple areas are extra wet, while the red areas are extra dry. update: “Normal” precipitation is derived from PRISM climate data, created at Oregon State … Continue reading
Dammed Anthropocene
James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA. He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London … Continue reading
Inequality in the USA – driven by politics?
1) Multi-part Slate series The Great Divergence 2010:What’s causing America’s growing income inequality? by Timothy Noah examines changes in inequality in the USA and evaluates multiple explanations. He introduces the series by writing: In the late 1970s, a half-century trend … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson, political economy, USA, Winner take All Politics
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Over fertilizing the world
Three faces of global over fertilization from agriculture in China and the USA, and its complex effects on food webs. 1) Chinese farmers are acidifying there soil by over applying fertilizer. Acidic soils impede crop growth and amplify the leaching … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services
Tagged acidification, agriculture, China, fertilzier, food webs, India, nitrogen, USA
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Mapping the USA’s food
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has introduced the Food Environment Atlas, a new web-based data visualization tool. The atlas is an interactive online tool that allows people to visualize various food related information at the USA county level. For … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged Edible geography, food, Food Environment Atlas, USA, USDA
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Hydrological impact of biofuels
R. Dominguez-Faus and others analyze the impact of different biofuels on water in the USA in their article in Envir. Science and Technology, The Water Footprint of Biofuels: A Drink or Drive Issue? (doi:10.1021/es802162x). The figure below, from the paper, … Continue reading
Bureau of Reclamation adaptive management job
I was sent this job ad: The Bureau of Reclamation has an opening for a GS-13 Supervisory General Biologist in Salt Lake City, Utah. The selectee will serve as an understudy to the current Adaptive Management Group Chief for approximately … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, General
Tagged adaptive management, Bureau of Reclamation, job, USA
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Mapping farms in the USA
New York Times reports on the 2007 USA agricultural census to map US organic farms The map of organic farms in the United States is clustered into a few geographic centers, a strikingly different pattern than the map of all … Continue reading
Mapping US Oil Imports over Time
Rocky Mountain Institute has created an animated map of US oil imports from 1973 to the present using google maps. The map uses data from the Energy Information Agency’s to show oil flows from exporting countries in terms of volume … Continue reading
Archetypical landscape of the USA
Jeff Cardille at the University of Montreal has a project METALAND that is eveloping more sophiticated ways of characterizing landscapes. He presented some of his work on archetypical landscapes of the USA at the current Ecological Society of America meeting. … Continue reading