Tag: Natural Resources

 

 

Resilience Training Tackles Food, Water, Energy Issues

• 409 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. • 18.7 million acres deforested annually. These and other numbers hang above Daniel Rico’s laboratory desk – daily reminders of the urgent resilience and climate change problems he aims to tackle in his career. With support from a new National Science Foundation-funded interdisciplinary graduate […]


Workshops Focus on Arctic Changes

Nebraska researchers led workshops in Alaska and Nebraska to develop a highly interdisciplinary approach for enhancing Arctic resilience.  Supported by a new collaboration-intensive National Science Foundation program, the 2018 sessions united scientists, practitioners and stakeholders from the Arctic and mid-latitude locations like Nebraska. Participants devised strategies for managing rapid change in the Arctic, which is […]