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Last month, the Bureau of Land Management released a five-year Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Action Plan. The basic idea is to get more members of the public involved in scientific research that helps the agency better manage the many millions of acres under its control.
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This year, the University of Wyoming College of Law launched the Firearms Research Center. The center hopes to establish more voices in Second Amendment discussions and will act as a reliable, nonpartisan resource for firearms related information. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke with co-founder and executive director of the center Ashley Hlebinsky on why the center is important to her personally.
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Sixty-six million years ago, a meteor struck Earth just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Dinosaurs and 75 percent of the species on the planet went extinct – but what happened to the flora and fauna that survived?Scientists from the University of Wyoming (UW) are part of an interdisciplinary team working to answer that exact question. Using clues from the fossil record, the researchers are traveling back in time to better understand how life rebounded after such a cataclysmic event.
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a serious issue in bodies of water across the West. In Idaho, USGS scientists have developed a tool that harnesses satellites to help detect where such blooms could be cropping up. That could make time- and resource-intensive detection efforts more efficient.
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Artificial intelligence is being used to predict our interests. Now, researchers are using the tech to predict which species interact to better understand how extinction works.
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Across the region, goatheads - or puncturevine - are a scourge to cyclists, walkers and our four-legged friends: they pop tires and embed themselves in shoes and sensitive paws. There are many efforts to halt their spread, and new research could help to better target that work.
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The University of Wyoming State Vet Lab has a biocontainment facility, and within that there’s a necropsy facility. It was used recently for the first time to diagnose animal infections that have the potential to transfer to humans.
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Yellowstone National Park scientists are using a unique tool to help them reconstruct the highways demolished by last year’s floods. LIDAR uses a laser to let researchers map the land surface under the trees, water, and ground cover.
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Laramie endured extreme weather events in 2020 and 2021, but researchers have been unable to accurately track small migratory songbirds to see how they are being affected. Recently, researchers from the University of Wyoming began using a new tracking device to learn more about small songbird migration patterns.
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The warming climate has led to some subtle changes in the size and wings of birds — some faster than others, according to new analysis from researchers at the University of Michigan.