A new study by an international community of scientists reveals that today, atmospheric carbon dioxide is at its highest level in at least several million years thanks to widespread combustion of fossil fuels by humans over the past couple centuries. The study features key contributions by University of Utah geologists and GCSC faculty affiliates Gabe […]
Read MoreGCSC affiliate faculty Bill Anderegg, Sara Grineski, Tim Collins and colleagues have published a study looking at the potential effects of wildfire and tree mortality on property values in these areas in the U.S. Earth’s rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising […]
Read MoreForests are engaged in a delicate, deadly dance with climate change, hosting abundant biodiversity and sucking carbon dioxide out of the air with billions of leafy straws. They can be a part of the climate solution as long as global warming, with its droughts, wildfires and ecosystem shifts, doesn’t kill them first. In a study […]
Read MoreExcerpted from an article by Paul Gabrielsen in AtTheU. Read the full story here. The coronavirus pandemic shut down a lot of research, including field research. But not so for Austin Green, a doctoral student in the Şekercioğlu research group in the School of Biological Sciences. A 2019 recipient of a National Geographic Society Early […]
Read MoreWilliam Anderegg, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, has a central research question: What is the future of ecosystems in a changing climate? His lab studies how drought and climate change affect forest ecosystems, and seeks to gain a better mechanistic understanding of how climate change will affect forests around the world. In a […]
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