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  • Environmental Research Consortium With Lacawac Sanctuary

    October 24, 2013

    Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and Drexel University today announced an agreement to form an environmental research and education consortium at Lacawac Sanctuary, a popular National Natural Landmark and ecological field research station in the Pocono Mountains.

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  • Drexel Scientist Studies Hurricane Sandy Impact on NJ Coastal Wetlands One Year Later

    October 07, 2013

    In a stroke of good luck, Drexel's Dr. Tracy Quirk captured detailed measurements of water level and salinity at a range of coastal wetland sites, even as they were overtaken by Hurricane Sandy. After the storm, she began working on an intensive year-long project, funded by the National Science Foundation, to evaluate ecosystem processes in New Jersey’s salt marshes before, during, and for a year following Hurricane Sandy. Quirk is beginning to analyze findings from the study now.

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  • Longline Fishery in Costa Rica Kills Thousands of Sea Turtles and Sharks

    October 02, 2013

    The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles.

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