Living Earth Collaborative Happenings
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Stay in the Know with LEC News, Events, and Opportunities
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| FARM Cultivate Grant Track 2 Workshop |
Thursday, June 5, 2:00 pm
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Schnuck Pavilion, room 202
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The workshop is designed to promote the Track 2 call, strengthen proposals, and collaborations by giving environmental researchers an opportunity to connect and discuss their ideas for proposals. Track 2 is designed for interdisciplinary teams and can provide up to $250,000 of support over two to three years. These applications are due Aug. 1.
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The workshop is open to WashU faculty and research staff and hosted by the Center for the Environment.
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Biodiversity Fellow Highlights |
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Garden Biodiversity Fellows Featured on Science Friday |
Science Friday recently visited Missouri for a live taping at the University of Missouri. Lúcia Lohmann and Charlotte Taylor were featured on this episode to discuss their work discovering new plant species and maintaining the storied Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Reduced thermoregulatory ability contributes to increased mortality in urban box turtles (Terrapene spp.) |
A team of researchers from Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis Zoo, and WashU analyzed 10 years of temperature data from free-living box turtles to assess differences in the temperatures experienced by urban and rural turtles and the impacts of temperature on turtle mortality.
Their findings, published in Journal of Thermal Biology, show that Forest Park turtles are poor thermoregulators and suffer higher mortality because of exposure to cold during brumation. Interestingly, researchers found no evidence of an urban heat island effect at the soil surface within the park's forest fragments.
Read the article here.
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1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
washu.edu
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