@bpkfish

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 Burlington, Vermont
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Joined September 2011
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No big deal @uvmvermont @EnvsUvm undergraduate thesis featured in @ScienceMagazine . Well done @cjfinkelstein and @Nate_J_Sanders ! science.org/content/article/…

Pollinators like their flowers with a dash of salt

Sodium-supplemented plants attract more diverse and plentiful pollinators

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So clear. So well done. Thanks @g_galford and Prof. Dupigny-Giroux for all your work on this.
Gillian Galford@g_galford1 Mar 2022
Want to know what climate change will bring in the next 10-30 years? Catch me and Prof. Dupigny-Giroux on this @vprnet segment. @GundInstitute @UVM_RSENR @UVMGeog
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Great undergraduate thesis @UVM now a published article in Animal Conservation - across the globe, locals are ok with big cats living nearby - Great job Will Corcoran zslpublications.onlinelibrar…
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At the forefront again - thanks for this work @markmulligan.
Mark Mulligan@markmulligan11 Aug 2021
We have to decarbonise fast, but carefully. No energy generation technology is without environmental impact and energy efficiency is also important going forward. Some of the challenges & solutions for hydropower explored in new joint paper #GlobalDamWatch kcl.ac.uk/news/more-than-160…

More than 160,000 miles of rivers at risk of losing "free-flowing" status | King's College London

More than 160,000 miles (~257,000 km) of rivers are in danger of losing their “free-flowing status” as a result of proposed new hydropower dam construction, according to a recent study published in...

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Amazing Carol. I failed miserably at sourdough for two months. You are an artist.
Carol Adair@ecadair26 Apr 2021
My pandemic stress manifest as 14,471 meters or 9 miles of yarn #knitting
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Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Running for my friends Juno, Iris and my nephew Brooks. Thanks @VTFN @ericdroy #WorldDownSyndromeDay
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AGU's Eos@AGU_Eos2 Mar 2021
Children’s diet diversity is influenced by climate variables at levels comparable to influences like clean water, access education quality, & distance to urban centers. #NutritionMonth Research from @MeredithNiles1 & @bpkfish , story by @ChristianFoger1 eos.org/articles/climate-cha…

Climate Change May Reduce Children’s Diet Diversity - Eos

Researchers synthesize climate and health data to statistically quantify the relationship between diet diversity and climate variables.

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Climate Change Pushing Up Child Malnutrition Levels. Nice ⁦@Forbes⁩ piece about new ⁦@GundInstitute⁩ research led by ⁦@MeredithNiles1⁩ and supported by ⁦@sesync⁩ and ⁦@USAID⁩. forbes.com/sites/dishashetty…
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It was fun to do a media interview across the pond! Many thanks to @BBCWorld for their coverage of our recent work on child diet diversity and climate @TaylorHRicketts @bpkfish @dbemerydt @SergeWiltshire bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0943d…

Newsday - How climate change is affecting kids' nutrition - BBC Sounds

A major study links malnutrition in children to higher temperatures, along with poverty

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#Climate change is hurting children’s diets, #UVM global study finds. 19-nation study links higher temperatures to malnutrition in 5 of 6 regions studied. READ: go.uvm.edu/zltsp STUDY: go.uvm.edu/p2n-d Team: @MeredithNiles1 @TaylorHRicketts @bpkfish @dbemerydt
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ecoNEWS VT@ecoNEWS_VT7 Jan 2021
Vermont research you don't want to miss! 🌲🏞From March-June 2020, 70% of @uvmvermont survey respondents increased their visits to natural areas in greater Burlington due to COVID-19. @bpkfish econewsvt.org/news/covid-19-…
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New nature lover? It's a #COVID19 side effect. In the pandemic, 26% of park users visited nature for the first time in months or years, finds a new study by @bpkfish and his team of #UVM students. 🌳Release: go.uvm.edu/3ck1s 🌳Study: go.uvm.edu/ml5ue @PLOSONE
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People are needing and seeking nature in pandemic times. uvm.edu/rsenr/news/new-natur…

New Nature Lover? It’s a COVID-19 Side Effect

| The University of Vermont

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Hundreds of #oil wells & #fracking sites could soon cover ecologically important areas of #Namibia & #Botswana - including #WorldHeritageSites - in the “largest oil play of the decade" nationalgeographic.com/anima… @wwf_uk @XRebellionUK @ConservationOrg @Greenpeace @IPBES @IPCC_CH

Oil drilling, possible fracking planned for Okvanago region—elephants’ last stronghold

Hundreds of oil wells could come to cover a huge expanse in Namibia and Botswana, in what has been called possibly the “largest oil play of the decade.”

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Scientific publishing might be broken, but for biodiversity conservation Oryx is now open access and waivers for processing charges are available. See editorial by Martin Fisher - cambridge.org/core/journals/… Thanks Oryx!

Democratizing knowledge for conservation: Oryx becomes open access | Oryx | Cambridge Core

Democratizing knowledge for conservation: Oryx becomes open access - Volume 54 Issue 5

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Many universities start back today. Us too here at UVM - lets us all remember the length of a dairy cow.
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Been a proud Catamount for a long time, but with @uvmvermont 's decision to Divest from Fossil fuels even more so today -
EnvsUvm@EnvsUvm15 Jul 2020
Check this out: uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-div… via @AddThis
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Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world

Nature - COVID-19 is exposing the fragility of the goals adopted by the United Nations — two-thirds are now unlikely to be met.

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Great new paper by @pauljferraro and @rhitasim In Science Advances showing cash transfers for poverty reduction also reduce deforestation. advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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roger bennett@rogbennett1 Jun 2020
Liverpool FC began training at Anfield by having entire squad take a knee for George Floyd today. Premier League runaway leaders have players from across Europe, Africa, Asia, South America. A statement embodying extent to which world's hearts bond with the suffering in Minnesota
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