Erin Barton spent summer 2017 on an internship working with The Nature Conservancy, Colorado Chapter, on their Sustainable Grazing Lands Program. She was awarded this internship as part of the Wyss Scholarship, funded by the Wyss Foundation, which provides funding for students focosed on conservation issues in the American West. Describing her intership, Erin wrote,…
Mondrian is a computer model of wetland community and ecosystem ecology (Currie et al. 2014, Ecological Modelling 282: 69-82). Its main strength is that it spans four levels of organization in a unified, integrated fashion: (1) individual plants and their physiology; (2) population-level processes including fecundity and mortality; (3) community-level processes including competition among native plant…
Bill Currie will be offering a new, 1-credit graduate seminar course on coastal wetlands for fall 2017. Class will meet every two weeks for 2 hours, 4-6 p.m., starting on Monday September 11. The focus will be mainly on Great Lakes coastal wetlands, their ecology and management, but to some extent we’ll look at coastal…
We recently began a new NASA-funded project, continuing the work with a large collaborative team to link land use, socioeconomic drivers, and climate to the hydrology and water quality in large-river watersheds and the effects on Great Lakes coastal wetlands. In past work, the Michigan team developed the Mondrian model of community-ecosystem processes to better…
