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‘Multiple Paternity’ Gives Invertebrates Climate Change Advantage, Research Finds
A common reproductive strategy among invertebrates called multiple paternity could give animals like porcelain crabs a survival advantage as the world grows warmer, new research finds. While climate change is often associated with major events like melting glaciers and super storms, the authors of the recently published paper in the Journal of Crustacean Biology […]
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Helping the United Nations to Better Understand Climate Change
Thomas Wahl, core faculty member for the National Center for Integrated Coastal Research and assistant professor in the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science, is helping the United Nations better understand and communicate climate change to the world. Wahl, who also is a member of UCF’s Sustainable Coastal Systems Cluster, will serve as a contributing […]
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The Importance of the Deep Blue Sea
World Oceans Day — held each June 8 — is an opportunity to promote campaigns and initiatives that bring ocean issues to the forefront. This year’s observance follows recent research that suggests the amount of plastic in the ocean is worse than scientists previously expected. A garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is now twice […]
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Alumna Combines Health and Climate Change
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) awarded UCF alumna Linh Anh Cat a Next Generation Fellowship award. This award recognizes her research on patterns of fungal disease dispersion and climate change, as well as a review she wrote which links her work to public policy. Her public policy review calls for nations to cooperate […]
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Wood Decomposition a Climate Change Detector?
Climate change models could have a thing or two to learn from termites and fungi, according to a new study released this week. For a long time scientists have believed that temperature is the dominant factor in determining the rate of wood decomposition worldwide. Decomposition matters because the speed at which woody material are broken […]