Publications & Results
| Resource Title | Brief Summary |
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| Google Earth Tours: Monarch Butterflies Migration |
May 10, 2013 As a part their ongoing collaboration with Encyclopedia of Life and a Google Outreach Developer Grant, Atlantic Public Media has produced four Google Earth presentations for their series One Species At A Time: Stories of Bio-Diversity on the Move. SESYNC researcher Leslie Ries contributed to the Google Earth Tour on monarch butterfly migration. |
| Introducing AMV (Animal Movement Visualizer), a visualization tool for animal movement data from satellite collars and radiotelemetry |
May 05, 2013 Article published in Ecological Informatics. |
| Cooperation in Context: Public Goods Games and Post-Soviet Collectives in Kamchatka, Russia |
Apr 16, 2013 Economic game experiments have become a prominent method among social scientists developing and testing theories of cooperation. These games provide a valuable opportunity to generate measures of cooperation that can be compared from one place to the next, yet challenges remain in how to interpret cross-cultural differences in these experiments and connect them to cooperation in naturally occurring contexts. I address these challenges by examining framing effects in public goods games (PGGs) with salmon fishers and reindeer herders in Kamchatka, Russia. |
| Temporal Myopia: A Case of Promising New Technologies, the Federal Government, and Inherent Conflicts of Interest |
Apr 04, 2013 Book chapter published in Research in Social Problems and Public Policy.
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| Landscape as Method and Medium for the Ecological Design of Cities |
Mar 01, 2013 Book chapter published in Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design. |
| A Scoping Workshop on the Macroevolution of Ecosystem Services |
Jan 30, 2013 At SESYNC, the working group identified a set of closely related fundamental questions under the umbrella of the macroevolution of ecosystem services. The team then distinguished an interlinked set of ground-level topics from several follow-up questions that were of equal or greater interest levels, but which hinged on having the fundamental work in place. |
| The Heartbeat of Ecosystems |
Jun 15, 2012 Article published in Science. |
| Tracking climate impacts on the migratory monarch butterfly |
May 13, 2012 We assess the impacts of spring and summer climate conditions on breeding monarch butterflies, a species that completes its annual migration cycle over several generations. No single, broad-scale climate metric can explain summer breeding phenology or the substantial year-to-year fluctuations observed in population abundances. As such, we built a Poisson regression model to help explain annual arrival times and abundances in the Midwestern United States. |
| IPBES Knowledge Generation Paper |
Apr 04, 2012 Resulting from a work shop at SESYNC with the purpose of exploring the program of work of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), with a particular focus on the generation of knowledge function. |
| Seeking Cures for North Korea’s Environmental Ills |
Mar 23, 2012
Margaret Palmer got a firsthand look earlier this month at a looming ecological catastrophe that few other scientists have witnessed. On a rare foray into North Korea’s countryside, Palmer, director of the University of Maryland’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis, saw a landscape of wasted soil and rivers choked with silt from erosion. “Farmers were working the land right down to the water’s edge,” she says.
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