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Climate Week En Review: April 12, 2024

Climate Week En Review: April 12, 2024

I’m back from an incredible ten-day trip to Jordan where I rode a bike 270km along the Jordan Bike Trail. It was the hardest physical challenge I’d ever set for myself but so exhilarating. I saw beautiful landscapes, met incredible people, slept in a tent (twice) and walked away feeling like I know myself better. If anyone wants more details about my trip, do reach out!

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EcoRight Speaks, Season 8, Episode 6: ecologist, reclamation expert Mike Curran

EcoRight Speaks, Season 8, Episode 6: ecologist, reclamation expert Mike Curran

This week’s guest is ecologist Dr. Michael Curran, who owns and operates Abnova Ecological Solutions. A Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) and Certified Wildlife Biologist (CWB), he received both the top M.S. and top Ph.D. Student Award in the country by the American Society of Reclamation Sciences upon completing his graduate degrees.  He developed techniques to improve reclamation & restoration monitoring and also pioneered the use of spatially-explicit dashboards to rapidly report reclamation monitoring results, allowing for informed decision making and easy-to-interpret data.  Mike worked with 26 oil & gas companies in reporting reclamation and restoration data to the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Conservation Efforts Database prior to the 2015 Endangered Species Act listing decision of the Greater sage-grouse and was acknowledged by the USFWS for the importance of his contributions.  

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Climate Week En Review: March 29, 2024

Climate Week En Review: March 29, 2024

Hello, friends! About the time you’re getting this, I’m likely about to go to sleep in my hotel in Jordan, where I will spend the next week riding a bike (a real one!) through the countryside seeing some majestic places like Petra and Wadi Rum. Because I’m on this trip of a lifetime, there will be no Week En Review on April 5th, but I will be back in your inbox on April 12th!

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Climate Week En Review: March 15, 2024

Climate Week En Review: March 15, 2024

It looks like we are close to peak cherry blossom season in Washington, DC. 🌸 The puffy pink and white blooms are our version of fall foliage and the average peak day is occurring about six days sooner (March 30) than it was a century ago. And last year, peak bloom was on March 23rd. With warm, sunny weather in our forecast this week and weekend, we could have one of the earliest seasons ever.

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Climate Week En Review: March 8, 2024

Climate Week En Review: March 8, 2024

Okay, so here’s the deal. February 2024 was globally the hottest February on modern record. It’s also the NINTH MONTH IN A ROW that a month has beat out all other months for the heat record. So, March… what do you have? Hopefully not more of the same.

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