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Karen Lutsky landscape

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Meet our faculty: Karen Lutsky
Academic focus: Resilient landscapes and landscape laboratories Research summary: My work explores how landscape architects and designers might better design “with” changing landscapes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Over the...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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A new Cornell-led project will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Water
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Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs' resistance.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Entomology
  • Environment
bobolink bird

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In June 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires dampened birds’ vocalizations in New York state, with a particularly negative effect on already imperiled grassland birds.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources
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The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently funded a Cornell DNRE and CBFS group for a new two-year project “Evaluating mysid abundance in Lake Michigan using two decades of fisheries acoustic data.” This project will involve DNRE graduate...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Karen Lutsky landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Karen Lutsky
Academic focus: Resilient landscapes and landscape laboratories Research summary: My work explores how landscape architects and designers might better design “with” changing landscapes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Over the...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
Brent Sinclair Headshot

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Academic focus: Insect environmental physiology Research summary: I study how insects survive and thrive in harsh environments. Although we center our research on the insect, we follow mechanisms all the way to molecular biology and consequences...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Physiology
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Academic focus: Biodiversity big data and insect conservation Research summary: The goal of my research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data. While the distribution of some...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators