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Leon County Commissioner Rick Minor posted this picture after Pam Hall died. He wrote, “Her love of science, facts, data and analysis was so infectious…Rest in power, Dr. Hall. You have made Leon County a better place to live. And knowing you has made me a better person and a better County Commissioner. Thank you.”
Tallahassee recently lost a passionate ecologist.
Pamela Hall earned a doctoral degree in Tropical Forest Ecology, but she was well-known as an expert and activist in land use planning, transportation, and wastewater in Leon County.
“Just a few days before she died, she was working hard on the issue with the Northeast Parkway…Welaunee Boulevard that connects basically Thomasville Road to Welaunee. She didn t quite live to see anything final, but those of us that are still here, we re carrying on and we invoke her name every day,” laughs longtime friend Kathy Archibald, who worked alongside Hall for years on growth management issues, including a ca
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IMAGE: Forest along Panama s Pacific coast. Not all tropical forests store the same amounts of carbon. The new Tansley review of carbon storage in many forests revealed that general predictions can. view more
Credit: Steve Paton, STRI
Investors who bet on tropical forest conservation and reforestation to solve global warming by storing carbon in wood face huge uncertainties because the science behind predicting carbon stocks is still shaky. Even the best Earth Systems Models fail to predict how carbon stored by tropical forests varies from place to place. The
New Phytologist invites scientists doing the most-exciting, ground-breaking research to review timely topics in a way that non-scientists can understand. Helene Muller-Landau, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) was chosen to write the authoritative Tansley Review of carbon accounting in the tropics.