Chemical & Engineering News: Green Energy's Environmental Impacts (Feat. F. Garcia-Pichel)

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i50/Green-Energys-Environmental-Impacts.html

Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine: Can biological soil crust communities be restored?

Nice, recent article on our biocrust restoration project on military lands (led by Nichole Barger with a team consisting of Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Ana Giraldo, Sergio Velasco, myself, Anita Antoninka, Jayne Belnap, Sasha Reed, & Mike Duniway) here.

Ana Giraldo tending her cyanobacterial cultures in the Garcia-Pichel lab (Arizona State University)

Syntrichia clone library

This is the beginnings of our new culture collection of Syntrichia, established by Kyle Doherty. Eventually, we'll have roughly 50 populations each for S. ruralis and S. caninervis growing from all over the Colorado Plateau.

Upcoming biocrust course targeted to federal employees

Hi,

Please distribute to your networks.  

There is plenty of room available in the Biological Soil Crust course, to be held in Moab, Utah, March 25-27th.  Registration must be completed by Jan. 24th or we will be forced to cancel the course.  The course is taught by Jayne Belnap (USGS) and Roger Rosentreter (retired BLM ID State Botanist).  If budgets will allow, please sign up in DOI Learn (Course no. 1730-41).

If you have any questions, please contact me.  

Thanks!
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Lori Young

Training Coordinator

Wildlife, Plant Conservation and IPM

BLM National Training Center

9828 N. 31st Avenue

Phoenix, AZ  85051

602-906-5640

lyoung@blm.gov

Visit my sharepoint site 

https://partnerteamspace.blm.doi.net/sites-nt/esa/default.aspx 

Topography as a key factor driving atmospheric nitrogen exchanges in arctic terrestrial ecosystems

Topography as a key factor driving atmospheric nitrogen exchanges in arctic terrestrial ecosystems

CEIA3 News: Proven benefits of soil crusts in arid zone conservation

http://www.ceia3.es/en/news/news/134-proven-benefits-of-soil-crusts-in-arid-zone-conservation

Canton et al. conduct a rainfall simulation experiment over biocrusts in southern Spain. Source: Agrifood Center of International Excellence, Spain (CEIA3.es)

Rapid adjustment of leaf angle explains how the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis, copes with multiple resource limitations during rehydrationCSIRO PUBLISHING - Functional Plant Biology

CSIRO PUBLISHING - Functional Plant Biology

Cladonia lichens on extensive green roofs: evapotranspiration, substrate temperature, and albedo - F1000Research

Cladonia lichens on extensive green roofs: evapotranspiration, substrate temperature, and albedo - F1000Research

Way Overdue: A First-Ever Grazing Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Way Overdue: A First-Ever Grazing Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

The comment period on the Grand Staircase-Escalante NM Grazing Plan is open.

Spray bacteria on the desert to halt its spread - environment - 02 January 2014 - New Scientist

Spray bacteria on the desert to halt its spread - environment - 02 January 2014 - New Scientist

This short article recently appeared in New Scientist. It's about the practice of using mass-cultured cyanobacteria to fix dunes in China, thus combatting desertification. I believe the cyanobacteria are temporally irrigated to establish them.