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The Office of Marketing and Communications services CALS faculty, staff and students by providing news and feature coverage of research, teaching and extension and outreach news. We write and edit a wide variety of content for the Cornell Chronicle as well as our college-wide publications, websites and social media platforms.

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Farmers, scientists partner to support biodiversity on New York dairy farms
The push for sustainability metrics for the dairy industry is ever growing. This includes metrics for air and water quality, water use, and most recently above-ground biodiversity. We sat down with members of the Nutrient Management Spear...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
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Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

An interdisciplinary team of researchers determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean, leading decades of archaeologists to likely misidentify olive oil in ceramic artifacts.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil
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Grants to support research at nexus of AI, climate science

New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
Meredith Holgerson, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collects a sediment sample from Texas Hollow Pond in central New York.

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A tale of two ponds sheds light on high emissions

The slight differences in depth and light in Mud Pond and Texas Hollow Pond led to surprising differences in carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change