The Commons – February 2024

  • Steve Lawry, director of CIFOR’s Equity, Gender and Tenure research program, visits Baghamara Bufferzone Community Forest. Photo by Chandra Shekhar Karki / CIFOR

    New Graduate Research Award Supports Socio-Ecological Research

    When it comes to the field of socio-ecology, Nelson Institute graduate Steven Lawry has written the book (or, at least, one of them).

  • Extra! Extra!

    How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers. New York Times, December 8, 2023 Quoted: Lisa Naughton, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Center for Ecology and the Environment, …

  • Hailey Kuhn

    An Interdisciplinary Education

    The world is Hailey Kuhn’s oyster — and she knows it.

  • Haag kayaking on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, in September. Photo courtesy of Taylor Haag

    Building a Sustainable Community

    Imagine a community where people work together to preserve natural resources, protect their watershed, and learn about the importance of conservation.

  • Wild Winter Wonderland

    How climate impacts are shaping the winter wildlife community.

  • A Paws-itive Sighting

    For the first time in a century, martens — Wisconsin’s only state endangered mammal — have been spotted on Lake Superior’s Madeline Island.

  • Top Podcasts in Earth Observation

    Here are a few of our favorite Earth observation podcasts, ranging in topics from more focused remote sensing research topics to broad geospatial data and applications.