@YaleBiosphere

The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) supports environmental science at @Yale through research, training, & grants.

 New Haven, CT
yibs.yale.edu/
Joined February 2016
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Congrats to the winners of our @YaleClimateComm-sponsored #YaleClimateDay 2024 photo contest! 📸 1st: "The electrifying gaze of the glass treefrog" by Raissa Rainha 2nd: "A Visitor from the Arctic" by Cody Limber 3rd: "Great the Dawn" by Yue Li
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Thank you to all who attended and participated in our annual #YaleClimateDay event last week! We were happy to host six speakers from outside of Yale, as well as a poster session and photo contest with submissions from our graduate students and a few post-doctoral associates.
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Armita R. Manafzadeh@armanafzadeh16 Feb 2024
For centuries, paleontologists have had to rely on intuition re whether reconstructed joint poses "look right." Today in @NatureComms: we created a way to formalize & test that intuition, & discovered that articular surface interactions distinguish locomotor poses in dinosaurs 🧵
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Yale Peabody Museum@yalepeabody3 Nov 2023
Join us on Wednesday, 11/15 for the Bass Distinguished Lecture--"Connecting Environment and Economy" peabody.yale.edu/events/conn… @YaleEnvironment professor @EliFenichel discusses where, why, and how the environment is emerging as a primary driver of economic policy decisions. @Yale
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Thomas Near@TJNear27 Oct 2023
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@Yale News story about #NearLab & @thackfish ray-fin fish monograph! @yale_eeb @yalepeabody news.yale.edu/2023/10/26/fis…

Fish, reconsidered: An updated ‘Tree of Life’ draws surprising connections

In a major new work, Yale ichthyologist Thomas Near revises branches of the Tree of Life concerning most fish species based on the latest scientific knowledge.

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Paulo Brando@pmbrando1 Aug 2023
Join @YaleEnvironment as a postdoc to study the causes & consequences of forest degradation in Amazonia. Let’s work on solutions & tools to prevent future degradation. Let’s understand how agri intensification is changing the tropics. @YaleBiosphere shorturl.at/jyU04
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Yong Zhou@Yong__Zhou27 Jul 2023
Using a case study from Kruger and data synthesized across tropical savannas, our new paper presents compelling evidence that soil carbon in tropical savannas is mostly derived from grasses, even under woody encroachment. rdcu.be/dhUl8 nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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Yale School of the Environment@YaleEnvironment26 Jul 2023
#MangroveDay Professors Peter Raymond and @SparkleLM85 have been researching the effects of climate change in the Florida Everglades, which is home to 1.5 million acres of mangrove forests. #YSE #ClimateChange
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Yale University
@Yale26 Jul 2023
A new Yale study examines how some North American birds seek the same weather conditions all year long across migratory routes. #Yale news.yale.edu/2023/07/19/stu…

Study reveals how birds track environmental conditions across the seasons

A new Yale study examines how some North American birds seek the same weather conditions all year long across migratory routes.

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Yale Peabody Museum@yalepeabody10 Jul 2023
Curator Derek Briggs is searching for Earth's first animals. “What are the chances of finding fossils of the earliest, tiny, decay-prone animals in rocks > 600 MYO? Is [their] absence...simply a case of conditions that did not favor preservation?” news.yale.edu/2023/06/27/clu… @Yale

Clues in the clay: Scientists narrow the search for the first animals

Using a particular type of sedimentary rocks as their guide, researchers begin to tackle the question of when animals first appeared on Earth.

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Yale School of the Environment@YaleEnvironment9 Jul 2023
Includes commentary by #YSE Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Marlon: “It’s hard to imagine what summers will be like for our children and grandchildren in the next 20 years. This is exactly what global warming looks like.” cnn.com/2023/07/06/world/war… #Climatecrisis #globalwarming

Last month was the planet’s hottest June on record by a huge margin | CNN

June was the hottest such month on record for the planet by a “substantial margin,” the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Thursday.

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Yale Peabody Museum@yalepeabody13 Jun 2023
Curator Martha Muñoz introduced @NatGeo to animal species that have evolved to tolerate extreme heat. Some are adapting more quickly, but few can keep up with climate change. All are “existing on borrowed time, and time is running out." nationalgeographic.com/anima… @MunozLabYale

Meet the animals that can handle extreme heat

From foxes to wombats, these creatures have adapted to life in the desert. But they’ll need to evolve even more quickly to keep pace with climate change.

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Yale School of Public Health@YaleSPH7 Jun 2023
‼️🔥 Smoke from Canadian wildfires has led to unhealthy air quality in much of the Northern U.S. 🔥‼️ Here are 6 steps you can take to stay safe when air quality is unhealthy ⬇️🧵
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Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies@YaleBiosphere8 May 2023
Congrats to the winners of our @YaleClimateComm-sponsored @Yale Climate Day 2023 photo contest! 📸 1st: "Sunrise over Southern Kruger National Park though smoke from controlled burns" by Will Rogers 2nd: "Shearing Water" by Cody Limber 3rd: "Savanna grass fire" by Riley Wadehra
"Shearing Water" by Cody Limber

ALT "Shearing Water" by Cody Limber

"Savanna grass fire" by Riley Wadehra

ALT "Savanna grass fire" by Riley Wadehra

"Sunrise over Southern Kruger National Park though smoke from controlled burns" by Will Rogers

ALT "Sunrise over Southern Kruger National Park though smoke from controlled burns" by Will Rogers

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Yale Peabody Museum@yalepeabody26 May 2023
The erosion of the Appalachians could be driving fish biodiversity in the species-rich American SE. Research from Maya Stokes and curator @TJNear sequenced the DNA of greenfin darter specimens in the collection to uncover this "speciation in action": news.yale.edu/2023/05/25/riv…

River erosion drives fish biodiversity in the Appalachians

A new study provides evidence that river water eroding layers of metamorphic rock is a driver of freshwater fish biodiversity in the Appalachian Mountains.

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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication@YaleClimateComm29 May 2023
New research suggests that if a major blackout coincided with a #heatwave in #Phoenix, around half of its population (nearly 800,000) would require emergency medical care for heat stroke or other heat-related medical issues: ow.ly/ezlI50Ox606 via @nytimes
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Yale Environment 360@YaleE36028 May 2023
Climate change is not only driving up ocean temperatures, it is also stripping the seas of oxygen. Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists warn that future oxygen loss poses a grave threat to marine life. e360.yale.edu/features/as-oc…

As Ocean Oxygen Levels Dip, Fish Face an Uncertain Future

Global warming not only increases ocean temperatures, it triggers a cascade of effects that are stripping the seas of oxygen. Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists...

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Thomas Near@TJNear25 May 2023
1/6 New from #NearLab @ScienceMagazine Maya Stokes shows how rivers eroding through different rock types help explain high aquatic biodiversity in southeastern North America. W/@DaeminKim3 @TVAnews @hybridActinop @BenavidBolivia @juliawood527 @MITgeomorph @yalepeabody @yale_eeb
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Yale University
@Yale8 May 2023
Cities tend to be both dryer and hotter than surrounding rural areas, which can help or harm urban residents depending on other regional factors. A new Yale study examines what it means for city dwellers in the humid Global South. @YaleEnvironment #Yale environment.yale.edu/news/ar…

Humidity May Increase Heat Risk in Urban Climates

As cities come under increased heat stress with rising global temperatures, a new study by Yale School of the Environment scientists finds that urban humid heat can add additional heat risks to urban...

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Yale Paleoarchaeology Lab@YalePaleoarch9 May 2023
🚨 POST-DOC ALERT 🚨 -Yale Department of Anthropology -One year, start September 2023 -Experience with: agent based model development and optimal foraging theory -Aim: model 30,000 years of forager-environment interactions in the Zambezian biome -DM me for details -Please share!
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