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Marshall Shepherd provides expertise on urban rainfall patterns research, USA Today
Originally published here by USA Today. Written by Doyle Rice. Cities make it rain, study says Sure, we’ve all heard of the urban heat island effect, where cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. Now scientists have discovered a similar urban “rain island effect,” where cities appear to get more rainfall then the hinterlands around…
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UGA Today: People are altering decomposition rates in waterways
Dr. Krista Capps was recently featured by UGA Today for her work exploring decomposition rates in rivers around the world. In a recent paper, Capps and collaborators at UGA, Oakland University and Kent State University collected field data from over 150 researchers in 40 countries, putting together an evaluation that included 550 rivers across the…
