Sentences with phrase «urban ecologist»
An urban ecologist is someone who studies how plants, animals, and the environment interact in cities and urban areas. They focus on understanding and improving the relationship between people and nature in urban settings. Full definition
The essay was co-authored by AdaptNY editor and Harlem Heat Project coordinator A. Adam Glenn, with urban ecologist Zoé Hamstead of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture & Planning and Timon McPhearson, chair of the environmental studies program and director of the Urban Ecology Lab at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York City.
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The only winner to collect his prize at the 9 October ceremony was urban ecologist Mark Hostetler.
The findings could aid the conservation of some of the world's most critical sea creatures, says urban ecologist Travis Longcore of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.
«One of the factors driving the low per capita rating for California city trees could be the fact that 20 of the nation's 100 most densely populated cities are in California, meaning there's a higher volume of people in a confined space for trees,» said Natalie van Doorn, study co-author and research urban ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station.
She is an urban ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to understand how landscape patterns affect ecosystem services in cities.
Urban ecologists have been observing how socioeconomics impact species diversity for nearly two decades.
For that reason, says Travis Longcore, an urban ecologist at the University of Southern California Dornsife who was not involved in the study, the new atlas only provides a minimal baseline for what are likely much larger levels of light pollution.
Going from the country to cities «The take - home message is that the technology is not the limiting step in terms of acquiring this information,» said study co-author Jim Ehleringer, an urban ecologist at the University of Utah.
«This lets us put forward recommendations to people that are, this very minute, designing future lighting systems,» said Travis Longcore, an urban ecologist at the University of Southern California.
The white - footed mice's success is encouraging from a conservation perspective, since the urban mice were starting with a limited gene pool — only half the genetic diversity of country mice, noted Max Lambert, an urban ecologist and doctoral candidate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was not involved in the study.
2:33 — Cory introduces Stephen Goldsmith, sculptor, urban ecologist, planner, craftsman.
Daniel Phillips is a landscape architect and urban ecologist.
Science and learning specialist Gabriel Willow is an urban ecologist and tour guide for NYC Audubon, and leads regular Sunday morning bird walks at Wave Hill.
Extreme heat is often worse in areas with high percentages of vulnerable populations, notes Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School in New York City.
Marielle Anzelone is an urban ecologist whose experience centers on people's daily connections with nearby nature and the role that design, education, and government can play in fostering this relationship.