Tag: International

Freshwater Crayfish in Peril Worldwide

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
In early January, scientists led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) published results of a global assessment that shows that almost a third of the world’s species of crayfish are threatened with extinction. U.S. Forest Service aquatic ecologist Susie Adams was a co-author on the report and provided important information about North American crayfish…  More 

2008 Lacey Act Amendment Successful in Reducing U.S. Imports of Illegally Logged Wood

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Recently published research by U.S. Forest Service economist Jeff Prestemon supports the contention that the 2008 Lacey Act Amendment reduced the supply of illegally harvested wood from South America and Asia available for export to the United States. Using monthly import data from 1989 to 2013, Prestemon, project leader of the Forest Service Southern Research…  More 

Carbon Pools in African Mangrove Forests

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced funding for a proposal that involves the U.S. Forest Service, NASA, Duke University, and the University of Maryland in using field-based research as the basis for developing remote sensing tools to assess and monitor carbon pools in African mangrove forests. The project will use advanced 3-D…  More 

A City’s Dynamic Mangrove Forest

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
A recent report by U.S. Forest Service researchers on the forests of the San Juan Bay Estuary watershed provides details about a highly dynamic urban forest that provides important benefits for its residents. Tom Brandeis, supervisory research forester with the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Inventory and Analysis unit, worked with other Forest…  More 

SRS Hosts 10th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, June 22-27

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
This week, from June 22 to 27, the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station Center for Forest Disturbance Science (CFDS) is hosting the 10th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE) in Athens, Georgia. This is only the second time the symposium, which is held every four years, has met in the United States. More than…  More 

Southern Institute of Forest Genetics Hosts International Student Visitor

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Carmen Santos, a Ph.D. student from Lisbon, Portugal, recently traveled to Saucier, Mississippi, for an internship with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS). Santos will be working with C. Dana Nelson, project leader and research geneticist at the SRS Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, and biological sciences lab technician Chuck Burdine. “We have…  More 

International Student Visitor Arrives in Auburn for Forest Service Internship

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Wellington Cardoso, an undergraduate student from Brazil, arrived in Auburn, Alabama, this past January to begin an internship with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station. “Cardoso will play a major role in studying a biomass harvesting operation,” says Dana Mitchell, project leader of the Forest Operations research unit, which is hosting Cardoso. The operation…  More 

International Researchers Mobilize Against Risky Stowaway Pests

by Stephanie Worley Firley  • 
Sometimes there’s more to global trade than meets the eye. While consumers and economies may benefit from expanding market opportunities and a seemingly endless array of readily available goods, harmful pests could be lurking as people and products are transported between countries. An international research network, including scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, has come…  More 

International Evapotranspiration Symposium: April 7 – 10, 2014, Raleigh, NC

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
  Register now for Evapotranspiration: Challenges in Measurement and Modeling from the Leaf to the Landscape Scale and Beyond. An important part of the hydrologic water cycle is plant water use (transpiration) and evaporation from earth and ocean surfaces. Together, these two processes are called evapotranspiration. Scientists and engineers studying climate, ecosystem productivity, water use,…  More 

Celebrating Pioneering Researcher Ken Cordell

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
Ken Cordell recently retired after a phenomenally productive 50+ year career in the U.S. Forest Service, most recently as pioneering scientist and project leader with the Forest Service Southern Research Station. His planning assessments and research covered trends and futures of outdoor recreation, demographic and societal shifts, natural amenity migration and natural amenity values, and…  More