brendan fisher
@bpkfish
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Burlington, Vermont
Joined September 2011
No big deal @uvmvermont @EnvsUvm undergraduate thesis featured in @ScienceMagazine . Well done @cjfinkelstein and @Nate_J_Sanders ! https://t.co/J2hN7sBjgc
science.org
Sodium-supplemented plants attract more diverse and plentiful pollinators
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So clear. So well done. Thanks @g_galford and Prof. Dupigny-Giroux for all your work on this.
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 https://t.co/3VX1ULCajR
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At the forefront again - thanks for this work @markmulligan.
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
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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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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
https://t.co/Uo6Zc7lalj
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Researchers synthesize climate and health data to statistically quantify the relationship between diet diversity and climate variables.
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Climate Change Pushing Up Child Malnutrition Levels. Nice @Forbes piece about new @GundInstitute research led by @MeredithNiles1 and supported by @sesync and @USAID.
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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
https://t.co/CRjxTwUh9b
bbc.co.uk
A major study links malnutrition in children to higher temperatures, along with poverty
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#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: https://t.co/WYtKPtO9rS STUDY: https://t.co/vDCcHmrfU4 Team: @MeredithNiles1 @TaylorHRicketts @bpkfish @dbemerydt
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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
https://t.co/kWnCPmhRvK
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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: https://t.co/c6ahhRXPVz 🌳Study: https://t.co/QeKaq6NOpv
@PLOSONE
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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" https://t.co/oJ6GCjIw11
@wwf_uk @XRebellionUK @ConservationOrg @Greenpeace @IPBES @IPCC_CH
nationalgeographic.com
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.”
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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 - https://t.co/HdsSGhHDK7 Thanks Oryx!
cambridge.org
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 -
Check this out: https://t.co/Nym5hIrpRZ via @AddThis
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Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world
nature.com
Nature - COVID-19 is exposing the fragility of the goals adopted by the United Nations — two-thirds are now unlikely to be met.
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Great new paper by @pauljferraro and @rhitasim In Science Advances showing cash transfers for poverty reduction also reduce deforestation. https://t.co/3EaqeHP2ip
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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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