To Save the Earth, Better Nitrogen Use on a Hungrier Planet Must be Addressed
November 24, 2015 ・ Rose HuberThe global population is expected to increase by two to three billion people by 2050, a projection raising serious concerns about sustainable development, biodiversity and food security.
Understanding Animal Coexistence With a Little Dung and a Lot of DNA
November 30, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzPrinceton University researchers deployed a new tool to help solve an old ecological puzzle: How can multiple animals coexist while eating the same resources?
More Rain Leads to Fewer Trees in the African Savanna
October 14, 2015 ・ Angela Page for the Princeton Environmental InstituteIn 2015, data from satellites scanning the African savannas revealed that the more instances of heavy rainfall a savanna received, the fewer trees it had.
Princeton Part of $12 Million Project to Set Up Urban Water-Sustainability Research Network
September 4, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzPrinceton University researchers will join 14 academic institutions and partners nationwide on a $12 million project to address the challenges that threaten urban water systems in the United States and globally.
Feeding the Future and the Future of Food: Panel Discussion and Screening of the Film “Modern Nature”
May 19, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzThis panel will highlight research and educational activities currently underway by faculty, alumni, and graduate and undergraduate students to address the “food problem.” The broad focus will include health, environment, animal ethics, climate change, and food production and sufficiency. The…
Wasting the Savanna
May 11, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzTim Searchinger and Lyndon Estes are, respectively, a research scholar and associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. In recent years, as governments have begun to protect tropical forests because of the carbon…
Frontier Beneath Our Feet: Seismic Study Aims to Map Earth’s Interior in 3-D
March 16, 2015 ・ Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for ResearchPrinceton Graduate Students, Postdoc on a Mission of Learning and Restoration in Mozambique
February 17, 2015 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsGraduate Student Lisa McManus Awarded NMFS/Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellowship Award
August 21, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesLisa McManus, a second year doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, has been awarded a Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamic Fellowship by the Graduate Fisheries Fellowship Program. The Program is administered through…
