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PhD student Wenxiu Teng leads an EGCS team of researchers that recently debuted a new, highly accurate method for quantifying carbon capture in the Northeast’s salt marshes — and it’s a lot.

This study addresses an often-overlooked aspect of privacy research by focusing on geoprivacy - particularly in China, where Internet use exceeds 70% of the population and social media is pervasive. Through an online survey and statistical analysis, Zhang and McKenzie explore how knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors around privacy align in Chinese society. Their findings reveal that while increased privacy knowledge is linked to heightened privacy-protective attitudes and behaviors, declarative knowledge (like an understanding of privacy rights) surprisingly correlates with reduced privacy

Yale Environment 360 Highlights the work of State Geologist Brian Yellen and others in analyzing the impact that dam removal has on small waterways in New England.

In the article, Douglas interviews [Dr.] Michael Rawlins—extension associate professor in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and the associate director of the Climate System Research Center at UMass Amherst—to learn how intensifying wildfires in California, Massachusetts, and other geographies are predictable externalities of a warming world...

Dr. Michele Cooke is part of a team of scientists investigating ways to make earthquake warning systems work for more people.

As the planet passes a perilous threshold for warming, here's how scientists say we're still far from "game over"

A new tool uses Landsat, a network of land-focused satellites, to derive how much sediment is in coastal zones on the basis of the light reflected from the water column. The tool relies on an algorithm developed by Wenxiu Teng as part of his doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studies remote sensing and geomorphology. Teng presented the initial findings, with co-authors Qian Yu, Brian Yellen, Erin Peck, Rim Cook, Jon Woodruff, and David Ralston (WHOI), on 12 December at AGU’s Annual Meeting 2024 in Washington, D.C.

Julie Brigham-Grette and Robert DeConto were among more than 50 leading cryosphere scientists who recently released their annual report on the status of the world’s ice stores, warning of vastly higher impacts and costs to the global economy given accelerating losses in the world’s cryosphere – its regions of snow and ice.