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Dashboard reveals migration path of billions of birds

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The new Migration Dashboard reveals bird movements in localized detail. Photo from Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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By Pat Leonard
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  • Lab of Ornithology
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The BirdCast program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is exploring bird migration – one of the greatest, mostly unseen spectacles of nature – with its new Migration Dashboard, which reveals bird movements in localized detail previously unavailable to the general public.

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Repurposing the internet’s backbone to advance whale monitoring

Distributed acoustic sensing using deep-sea fiber-optic cables turns long stretches of seafloor into dense networks of virtual acoustic sensors that are critical for monitoring whales – details needed to safeguard declining whale populations.

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Fish to lettuce, sustainable aquaculture = zero waste
Tucked away across the street from Frank Morrison Hall, in an unassuming greenhouse on the Cornell University Ithaca campus, live a school of tilapia: a freshwater fish eaten around the world. Their home consists of a row of giant aquarium tanks...
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