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brendan fisher @bpkfish

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Joined September 2011
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No big deal @uvmvermont @EnvsUvm undergraduate thesis featured in @ScienceMagazine . Well done @cjfinkelstein and @Nate_J_Sanders ! science.org/content/article/…

Pollinators like their flowers with a dash of salt

Sodium-supplemented plants attract more diverse and plentiful pollinators

science.org
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So clear. So well done. Thanks @g_galford and Prof. Dupigny-Giroux for all your work on this.
Gillian Galford@g_galford
1 Mar 2022
Want to know what climate change will bring in the next 10-30 years? Catch me and Prof. Dupigny-Giroux on this @vprnet segment. @GundInstitute @UVM_RSENR @UVMGeog
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Great undergraduate thesis @UVM now a published article in Animal Conservation - across the globe, locals are ok with big cats living nearby - Great job Will Corcoran zslpublications.onlinelibrar…
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At the forefront again - thanks for this work @markmulligan.
Mark Mulligan@markmulligan
11 Aug 2021
We have to decarbonise fast, but carefully. No energy generation technology is without environmental impact and energy efficiency is also important going forward. Some of the challenges & solutions for hydropower explored in new joint paper #GlobalDamWatch kcl.ac.uk/news/more-than-160…
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Amazing Carol. I failed miserably at sourdough for two months. You are an artist.
Carol Adair@ecadair
26 Apr 2021
My pandemic stress manifest as 14,471 meters or 9 miles of yarn #knitting
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Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Running for my friends Juno, Iris and my nephew Brooks. Thanks @VTFN @ericdroy #WorldDownSyndromeDay
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AGU's Eos@AGU_Eos
2 Mar 2021
Children’s diet diversity is influenced by climate variables at levels comparable to influences like clean water, access education quality, & distance to urban centers. #NutritionMonth Research from @MeredithNiles1 & @bpkfish , story by @ChristianFoger1 eos.org/articles/climate-cha…

Climate Change May Reduce Children’s Diet Diversity - Eos

Researchers synthesize climate and health data to statistically quantify the relationship between diet diversity and climate variables.

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Taylor Ricketts@TaylorHRicketts
19 Feb 2021
Climate Change Pushing Up Child Malnutrition Levels. Nice ⁦@Forbes⁩ piece about new ⁦@GundInstitute⁩ research led by ⁦@MeredithNiles1⁩ and supported by ⁦@sesync⁩ and ⁦@USAID⁩. forbes.com/sites/dishashetty…
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Meredith Niles@MeredithNiles1
15 Jan 2021
It was fun to do a media interview across the pond! Many thanks to @BBCWorld for their coverage of our recent work on child diet diversity and climate @TaylorHRicketts @bpkfish @dbemerydt @SergeWiltshire bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0943d…

Newsday - How climate change is affecting kids' nutrition - BBC Sounds

A major study links malnutrition in children to higher temperatures, along with poverty

bbc.co.uk
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Gund Institute for Environment@GundInstitute
14 Jan 2021
#Climate change is hurting children’s diets, #UVM global study finds. 19-nation study links higher temperatures to malnutrition in 5 of 6 regions studied. READ: go.uvm.edu/zltsp STUDY: go.uvm.edu/p2n-d Team: @MeredithNiles1 @TaylorHRicketts @bpkfish @dbemerydt
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ecoNEWS VT@ecoNEWS_VT
7 Jan 2021
Vermont research you don't want to miss! 🌲🏞From March-June 2020, 70% of @uvmvermont survey respondents increased their visits to natural areas in greater Burlington due to COVID-19. @bpkfish econewsvt.org/news/covid-19-…
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Gund Institute for Environment@GundInstitute
18 Dec 2020
New nature lover? It's a #COVID19 side effect. In the pandemic, 26% of park users visited nature for the first time in months or years, finds a new study by @bpkfish and his team of #UVM students. 🌳Release: go.uvm.edu/3ck1s 🌳Study: go.uvm.edu/ml5ue @PLOSONE
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People are needing and seeking nature in pandemic times. uvm.edu/rsenr/news/new-natur…

New Nature Lover? It’s a COVID-19 Side Effect

| The University of Vermont

uvm.edu
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Prof Simon Willcock@Simon_Willcock
3 Nov 2020
Hundreds of #oil wells & #fracking sites could soon cover ecologically important areas of #Namibia & #Botswana - including #WorldHeritageSites - in the “largest oil play of the decade" nationalgeographic.com/anima… @wwf_uk @XRebellionUK @ConservationOrg @Greenpeace @IPBES @IPCC_CH

Oil drilling, possible fracking planned for Okvanago region—elephants’ last stronghold

Hundreds of oil wells could come to cover a huge expanse in Namibia and Botswana, in what has been called possibly the “largest oil play of the decade.”

nationalgeographic.com
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Scientific publishing might be broken, but for biodiversity conservation Oryx is now open access and waivers for processing charges are available. See editorial by Martin Fisher - cambridge.org/core/journals/… Thanks Oryx!

Democratizing knowledge for conservation: Oryx becomes open access | Oryx | Cambridge Core

Democratizing knowledge for conservation: Oryx becomes open access - Volume 54 Issue 5

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Many universities start back today. Us too here at UVM - lets us all remember the length of a dairy cow.
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Been a proud Catamount for a long time, but with @uvmvermont 's decision to Divest from Fossil fuels even more so today -
EnvsUvm@EnvsUvm
15 Jul 2020
Check this out: uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-div… via @AddThis
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Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world

Nature - COVID-19 is exposing the fragility of the goals adopted by the United Nations — two-thirds are now unlikely to be met.

nature.com
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Great new paper by @pauljferraro and @rhitasim In Science Advances showing cash transfers for poverty reduction also reduce deforestation. advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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roger bennett@rogbennett
1 Jun 2020
Liverpool FC began training at Anfield by having entire squad take a knee for George Floyd today. Premier League runaway leaders have players from across Europe, Africa, Asia, South America. A statement embodying extent to which world's hearts bond with the suffering in Minnesota
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