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The purpose of this study is to examine how the environment and neighborhood characteristics affects the health of the area residents. The study will help determine how changing neighborhood characteristics, such as green space, affect heart health, risk factors for other diseases, sense of well- being or neighborhood cohesion.

Start Date03 May 2018

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01 Jan 2025·FACETS

Data and knowledge needs for improving science and policy for peatlands in Canada in a changing world: insights from Global Peatlands Initiative Workshop, June 2023

Author: Schmidt, Megan ; Strack, Maria ; Blann, Kristen ; Cassidy, Allison ; Kleinke, Kimberly ; Pontone, Nicholas ; Hettinga, E. Kathryn ; Howie, Sarah ; Davies, Marissa A. ; Seutin, Gilles ; Davidson, Scott J. ; Bird, Melanie ; Sanderson, Nicole ; Richardson, Karen ; Balliston, Nicole ; Bona, Kelly ; Yin, Xiangbo ; Connolly, John ; Garneau, Michelle ; Kirkwood, Adam ; Harris, Lorna ; Hunter, Miranda ; Xu, Bin ; Fedorchuk, Lee ; He, Hongxing ; Barreto, Carlos ; Webster, Kara L.

Knowledge and data on the current function, future threats, and benefits of peatlands in Canada are required to support evidence-based decision-making to ensure they continue to provide critical ecosystem services. This is particularly relevant for Canada, given the large expanse of relatively intact peatland area. There is a need, not only to standardize protocols, but also to prioritize types of information and knowledge that can best meet conservation and management goals. This was the challenge posed to the participants of the Global Peatlands Initiative workshop in June 2023 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Participants were composed of researchers using primarily Western science approaches that use peatland data for carbon accounting, policy or sustainable land use, reclamation/restoration, conservation, wildlife, and water resources applications. For seven peatland data categories (hydrometeorological and environmental sensing; peat coring and depth; greenhouse gas monitoring; biodiversity; vegetation, woody debris, and litter; Traditional Knowledge; water quality), three priority measurements were identified and recommendations for their collection were discussed. The key recommendations from the workshop were to (1) create standardized, yet flexible protocols; (2) coordinate field data collection where possible; (3) weave more Traditional Knowledge into understanding of peatlands; (4) create an atlas of existing peatland information; (5) scope opportunities to create a network of peatland “super sites”.

05 Nov 2024·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Experimental coral reef communities transform yet persist under mitigated future ocean warming and acidification

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Author: Vicente, Jan ; Webb, Maryann K. ; Sparagon, Wesley J. ; Bahr, Keisha D. ; Nelson, Craig E. ; Jury, Christopher P. ; Price, James T. ; Freel, Evan B. ; Yamase, Nicole H. ; Squair, Cheryl A. ; Smith, Celia M. ; Shizuru, Leah ; Dobson, Kerri L. ; Graham, Andrew T. ; Timmers, Molly A. ; Grottoli, Andréa G. ; McLachlan, Rowan H. ; Rocha de Souza, Mariana ; Toonen, Robert J. ; Cros, Annick

Coral reefs are among the most sensitive ecosystems affected by ocean warming and acidification, and are predicted to collapse over the next few decades. Reefs are predicted to shift from net accreting calcifier-dominated systems with exceptionally high biodiversity to net eroding algal-dominated systems with dramatically reduced biodiversity. Here, we present a two-year experimental study examining the responses of entire mesocosm coral reef communities to warming (+2 °C), acidification (−0.2 pH units), and combined future ocean (+2 °C, −0.2 pH) treatments. Contrary to modeled projections, we show that under future ocean conditions, these communities shift structure and composition yet persist as novel calcifying ecosystems with high biodiversity. Our results suggest that if climate change is limited to Paris Climate Agreement targets, coral reefs could persist in an altered state rather than collapse.

07 Jul 2024·IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Weak Labeling for Cropland Mapping in Africa

Author: Robinson, Caleb ; Hacheme, Gilles Quentin ; Ferres, Juan M. Lavista ; Dodhia, Rahul ; Zaytar, Akram ; Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe ; Wood, Stephen

Cropland mapping can play a vital role in addressing environmental,agricultural, and food security challenges. However, in the context of Africa,practical applications are often hindered by the limited availability ofhigh-resolution cropland maps. Such maps typically require extensive humanlabeling, thereby creating a scalability bottleneck. To address this, wepropose an approach that utilizes unsupervised object clustering to refineexisting weak labels, such as those obtained from global cropland maps. Therefined labels, in conjunction with sparse human annotations, serve as trainingdata for a semantic segmentation network designed to identify cropland areas.We conduct experiments to demonstrate the benefits of the improved weak labelsgenerated by our method. In a scenario where we train our model with only 33human-annotated labels, the F_1 score for the cropland category increases from0.53 to 0.84 when we add the mined negative labels.

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