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Impact updates & By the numbers
JANUARY
Fifteen Google.org Fellows kick off a six-month engagement with Permafrost Discovery Gateway, significantly expanding the software development team and accelerating efforts to integrate new datasets and AI tools and upgrade the platform’s user interface.
https://woodwellclimate.org/permafrost-discovery-gateway-google-fellows
FEBRUARY
Dr. Ludmila Rattis’s TED Talk, “How poop turns into forests,” is released and viewed more than 400,000 times in the first two months. Dr. Rattis, Woodwell Climate’s second TED speaker, is an Assistant Scientist in the Tropics program and Tanguro Field Station General Coordinator.
https://woodwellclimate.org/how-poop-turns-into-forests
MARCH
Scientists from Woodwell Climate Research Center join nearly 200 other leading experts in forest ecosystems, climate change, and the carbon cycle in urging the Biden Administration to immediately declare a moratorium on all logging in mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.
https://woodwellclimate.org/ban-logging-federal-mature-forests
APRIL
Senior Scientist Dr. Jen Francis is quoted in an AP News article about March being the tenth consecutive month to break heat records, and that story is syndicated more than 500 times. Similarly, Dr. Francis was quoted in a widely-syndicated January AP News story about 2023’s record heat.
https://bit.ly/apnews-heat-record
MAY
In Flux, an exhibition of diverse artwork responding to rapid Arctic change created by five Woodwell-affiliated artists, opens at Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth, MA. The exhibition runs through mid-July.
https://bit.ly/in-flux-exhibit
By the numbers: Insights from recent Woodwell Climate publications
83%
Fire-induced tree mortality in Siberian larch forests
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105216
2x
Overestimation of carbon dioxide absorption by Arctic ecosystems when models assume landscape homogeneity
