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04.24 2025
Development, BRICS and What Else？
Professor Antonio A.R. IorisProfessor at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University (UK), and Director of the MSc in Environment and Development Programme. His research focuses on environmental governance, political geography, and political ecology, with a geographic emphasis on Latin America. He has conducted extensive long-term fieldwork across the region and previously served as a ...
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01.08 2025
Estuarine wetland restoration: a trade-off between carbon sequestration and methane emissions
AbstractSupport for coastal wetland restoration projects that consider carbon storage as a climate mitigation benefit is growing as coastal wetlands are sites of substantial carbon sequestration. However, the climate footprint of wetland restoration remains controversial as wetlands can also be large sources of methane. This talk focuses on the carbon flows into and out of three restored wetlands in ...
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10.18 2024
International Workshop on Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems and Global Change
Coastal wetland ecosystems is known as one of the most productive ecosystems on the Earth, and they are vital to environmental health, sustaining economic development, and preserving biodiversity. They are also playing an increasingly important role in mitigating climate change and environmental degradation. However, coastal wetland ecosystems are facing unprecedented challenges in the context ...
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09.27 2024
Fisheries Application of eDNA Metabarcoding in Northwest Atlantic
Dr. Yuan Liu is a Fish Biologist and the Program Leader for environmental DNA (eDNA) at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) under NOAA Fisheries. She holds a Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences from Stony Brook University (2012), along with an M.S. in Environmental Science (2004) and a B.S. in Oceanography (2001), both from Xiamen University, China. Dr. Liu's research is at the ...
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06.28 2024
Emergent responses to the antibiotic stress in a cross-feeding microbial community
Xianyi Xiong is a Post-Master’s Researcher and Lab Manager advised by Professor Will Harcombe at the University of Minnesota (USA), where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is an incoming PhD student at MIT. His research lies in the intersection among bacterial systems biology, microbial ecology, and stress biology. His goal is to continue strengthening the link among these fi...
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01.23 2024
Making the most of blue carbon opportunities
The conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems including mangroves, seagrass, tidal marshes, seaweed beds, and other ecosystems, offers the potential to mitigate climate change while providing a wide range of ecosystem services to coastal communities. The scientific concepts underlying the blue carbon concept have been established for over a decade with tangible outcomes, particular...
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11.13 2023
Biodiversity experiments: open questions and future tasks
Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems contain a large number of species and provide a large number of ecosystem services, in particular transformation of solar energy and carbon dioxide into biomass, fueling element cycles, soil formation, climate control and more. The role of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments is to test what would happen if the number of species within an ecosystem ...
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06.02 2023
Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia
AbstractSouthwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, with the greatest plant diversity on severely phosphorus-impoverished soils. Non-mycorrhizal plant families (e.g., Proteaceae) feature prominently on the poorest soils, and are uncommon on richer soils.The ecological success of Proteaceae on severely impoverished soils can be explained by two traits. Almost all Proteaceae produce cluster ro...
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04.07 2023
Global Environmental Changes and Green Development
Erik Solheim is a well-known global leader on environment and development. He served as Norwegian minister of Environment and International Development from 2005-2012. During that period, he initiated the global program for conservation of rainforests and brought through game changing National legislation - among them the Biodiversity Act and legislation to protect Oslo city forests. He bro...
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06.20 2022
【MarinAS-4】The magic of the term 'Blue Carbon' in climate change mitigation and its relation to biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals
Tim Jennerjahn is a Senior Scientist and head of the working group "Ecological Biogeochemistry" at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen, Germany. He is trained in geology and biogeochemistry at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the biogeochemical response of coastal aquatic systems to environmental change and 'Blue Carbon' storage in tropical regions at pre...