Findings also suggest a variety of industries in the Northeast could be negatively affected by warming trends, including maple syrup, timber and snow sports NEW YORK, December 1, 2018 – Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95 […]
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Study Shows Winter Snowpack Declines May Reduce Tree Growth and the Ability of Forests to Filter Carbon from Our Air and Water
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Wetter Soil Is Leading to Reduced Methane Gas Absorption
August 6, 2018 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeThe trend could accelerate an increase in atmospheric methane levels and intensify global warming.
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Scientists at City University of New York and Harvard University Team Up with UBS Asset Management to Establish a “New Calculus for Sustainable Investing”
February 1, 2018 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeNEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2018 – Scientists at The City University of New York (CUNY) and Harvard University, in partnership with UBS Asset Management, have developed a scientific framework to inform investment decisions that make positive contributions to sustainable environmental stewardship and human well-being. Among the beneficiaries are the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that promote […]
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Microbe Cataloguing on a Mega Scale
January 29, 2018 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeMicrobes are incredibly varied and key to earth’s biodiversity. Cataloging their abundance, composition, and characterization is a daunting task — one that has never been undertaken, until now. A groundbreaking global study of microbial diversity that included researchers with the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, […]
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New Study Suggests the United States’ Power Supply Has the Capacity to be More Adaptable to Climate Change than Previously Predicted
October 30, 2017 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeNEW YORK, October 30, 2017 — Climate change scientists warn that the continued burning of fossil fuels is likely to cause major disruptions to the global climate system leading to more extreme weather, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss. The changes also will compromise our capacity to generate electricity. In recent decades, capacity losses at […]
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Groffman’s Study into Urban Ecosystem Homogenization published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
August 25, 2017 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeExpansion of urban, suburban and exurban land in the United States over the past several decades has led to neighborhoods in very different parts of the country featuring patterns of roads, residential lots, commercial areas and aquatic features that are more similar to each other than the native ecosystems they replaced. In research funded by […]
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Andrew Reinmann joins the CUNY ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative as newest faculty hire
February 1, 2017 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeThe CUNY Advanced Science Research Center welcomes Dr. Andrew Reinmann to its Environmental Sciences Initiative as an Assistant Professor, joining Initiative Director Charles J. Vörösmarty and Professor Peter Groffman as the third of four faculty members with the initiative. Reinmann—who will also hold an assistant professorship with Hunter College’s Department of Geography—has a research focus […]
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Inside the CUNY ASRC with Zachary Tessler, PhD
January 30, 2017 | Environmental Sciences InitiativeZachary Tessler, PhD Research Assistant Professor and manager of the Coastal Science Synthesis Facility in the CUNY ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative A physical oceanographer by training, his work focuses on environmental change in river deltas and implications for natural and human systems in the coastal zone Studies the risk faced by cities and communities on river deltas […]
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Hungarian President Áder tours CUNY ASRC prior to UN Climate Change Summit
May 24, 2016 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeThe CUNY Advanced Science Research Center was honored to host Hungarian President János Áder and First Lady Anita Herczeg on Thursday, April 21, in advance of his participation at the United Nations Climate Change Summit. President Áder heard presentations from the ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative (ESI), led by Director Dr. Charles J. Vörösmarty, prior to […]
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Peter Groffman announced as professor with ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative
November 23, 2015 | ASRC News, Environmental Sciences InitiativeDr. Peter M. Groffman has been named to the faculty at The City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center’s (ASRC) Environmental Sciences Initiative. “I am delighted to welcome Dr. Peter Groffman to CUNY,” said Dr. Gillian M. Small, Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director of the CUNY ASRC. “He is an exceptionally […]