Ruth DeFries receives honorary degree
Ruth DeFries was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from McGill University on June 3.
Meha Jain’s paper in top thirteen
Lab Alum Meha Jain’s paper on farmer adaptation to climate to delayed monsoon selected in top thirteen paper in the last 10 years for advancing frontiers of knowledge about adaptation by Global Environmental Change
ERL editor’s pick for Marlier paper
Miriam Marlier’s paper was selected for Highlights of 2015 by Environmental Research Letters. The paper on “Fire emissions and regional air quality impacts from fires in oil palm, timber, and logging concessions in Indonesia” was also awarded the ERL “Best early career article of 2015.” Congratulations Miriam!
Climate change impacts and adaptation in India
Pinki Mondal leads edited special section in Current Science on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation focusing on agriculture in India
Connectivity in Costa Rica
Matt Fagan’s paper on targeted reforestation in Costa Rica published in Ecological Applications
Naomi Schwartz co-author on paper
Ph.D. student Naomi Schwartz co-authors paper in Nature on “Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests”
Benjamin Clark fellowship
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Benjamin Clark who has received a Pathfinder Fellowship from CUAHSI for his proposal “A fine balance: Sustainability of agricultural intensification and water security in India”
Meghna Agarwala’s paper on central India forests
Lab member Meghna Agarwala’s paper published in Regional Environmental Change on “Changes in Dry Tropical Forests in Central India with Human Use“
Trishna Dutta’s blog on CoolGreenScience
Lab member Trishna Dutta blogs about landscape connectivity for tigers in central India based on her paper recently published in Regional Environmental Change.
Catskills Blog
Undergraduate students blog about field trip to the Catskills Watershed. Students in Ruth DeFries’ class on Social-Ecological Systems for Sustainable Development learned firsthand about the New York City’s water supply.
