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Salamander Migration Season Marks the Beginning of Spring
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With salamanders starting to migrate to wet areas, Cornell student and faculty explain this phenomenon.
Border
Wednesday Panel to Discuss Migration and Storytelling
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Cornell’s Migrations Initiative is bringing together a panel of journalists and academics for a discussion on representation and challenges in migration reporting.
News
Author Ming Hsu Chen Explores Nuances of Immigrant Experience
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Author Ming Hsu Chen speaks about immigration and citizenship as part of Cornell’s Migrations: Global Grand Challenge project.
spotted lanternfly
Spotted Lanternfly Found in Ithaca, Prompting State Elimination Efforts
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The spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect with an agriculturally harmful potential, has been spotted in the Ithaca area.
minor
As Part of Cornell University Migration Initiatives, Einaudi Center Launches Migration Studies Minor
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As a response to the emerging phenomenon of mass migration, Cornell’s Einaudi Center launched a migration minor as part of an initiative to “draw students outside of their major fields and to extend their knowledge beyond a single country,” according to the program website.
biodiversity
Ornithologists, Birdwatchers Uncover Staggering Magnitude of Bird Population Decline
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Correction appended.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology conservation scientist Dr. Ken Rosenberg led an international team of 12 scientists in an analysis of decades of data on bird population — and the conclusion is disturbing. In the last 50 years, one in four birds in North America has disappeared. Pesticide use and loss of habitat to farmland are some of the most significant contributors to the decline in bird populations, according to Rosenberg. Although scientists have known for a long time that certain bird species were threatened by human activities, this study reveals that these issues apply to birds of nearly all species. “Seeing this net loss of three billion birds was shocking,” Rosenberg said.
refugees
Speaker Details Organization’s Work Advocating for Child Migrants
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Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, said that KIND aims to determine why child immigrants “are coming to the United States and whether they have a basis to remain here.”
Migrant Farmworkers
Students Present Projects on Migration Patterns to Immigrant Farmworkers
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The talk focused on the rights and protections of immigrant farmers in the United States and was in tandem with the fall course “Migration in the Americas: Engaged Research Methods and Practice,” in which students prepare a project that they can test with farmworkers.
Science
Cornell Team Looks at Automotive Dangers Faced by Local Amphibians
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By SARAH CROWE
On the night of the first warm spring rain, local salamanders emerge from the thawed forest ground to migrate. Because of passing cars, however, many of them are killed before reaching their destination. Cornell students Catherine Li ’18, Caroline Wollman ’18 and Abigail Shilvock ’17 are working with Todd Bittner, director of natural areas for Cornell Plantations, to protect salamanders and other amphibians from human intrusions in the Plantations and its related reserves. The three students are members of Biology Service Leaders, a group on campus that organizes teams of students that want to relate their science education with giving back to their community, according to Li. “We were looking for a way to transform our education into service — Biology Service Leaders adds something more to that, because you have to develop your own project,” Li said.