Princeton Students Explore Lake Carnegie for Nature’s Sake
July 1, 2008 ・ Kitta MacPhersonYou have to love nature, rising junior Stephanie Hill said, when you grow up, as she did, in a remote, pristine village on the shores of a glacier-fed lake in British Columbia. Megan Prier, a rising sophomore who hails from…
Sustainability Projects Funded through High Meadows Gift
June 16, 2008 ・ Ruth StevensThe first round of initiatives has been funded under the auspices of the research, education and civic engagement section of the University’s new Sustainability Plan. Supported by a gift from the High Meadows Foundation, the nine projects range from a…
Levin Chosen as Member of Italian Academic Institute
May 21, 2008 ・ Ruth StevensPrinceton ecologist Simon Levin, who has made major contributions in the areas of biological conservation and ecosystem management, has been selected as a foreign member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a venerable Italian academic institute. Founded…
Rainfall and River Networks Prove Accurate Predictors of Fish Biodiversity
May 7, 2008 ・ Teresa RiordanThe figure at the top right represents average runoff (the amount of rainfall that ends up in rivers or streams) with the driest regions appearing in red and the wettest in blue. The middle figure is an abstraction of the…
Endangered Zebra Life Caught on GPS
April 24, 2008 ・ Ushma Patel
Testing the Waters in Bermuda for Global Warming
December 6, 2007 ・ Karin DienstEileen Zerba (left), the instructor of “Signals, Yardsticks and Tipping Points of Global Warming,” helped freshman Laura Fernandez identify and prepare algae samples. Students in the freshman seminar took a fall break trip to Bermuda, enabling them to get a…
