Amelia Min-Venditti

• Master of Science
• PhD Student at Arizona State University

Remote rainforest lodges are a growing part of the ecotourism industry. They can provide benefits through employment, environmental protection, and opportunities for scientific research. Lodges are vulnerable to income interruptions which put these benefits at risk. Authors identified water-related health crises as a potential interruption. Four lo...

Abstract

Despite the prevailing assumption that hydrological flow variation is amplified and runoff increased with deforestation, evidence behind these claims is limited for very moist tropical regions. Data derived from field observations are needed to productively manage forested watersheds, optimize global climate models, and inform policymaking. First,...

Antigen-specific T cells provide a therapy for cancer that is highly specific, self-replicating, and potentially devoid of toxicity. Ideally, tumor-specific T cells should recognize multiple epitopes on multiple antigens to prevent tumor immune escape. However the large-scale expansion of such broad-spectrum T cells has been limited by the availabi...

Diverse life forms have evolved internal clocks enabling them to monitor time and thereby anticipate the daily environmental changes caused by Earth's rotation. The plant circadian clock regulates expression of about one-third of the Arabidopsis genome, yet the physiological relevance of this regulation is not fully understood. Here we show that th...

Zoosporic fungi (chytrid) abundance, as captured on pollen bait, was significantly higher in pristine sites than impacted sites in a survey of six water bodies of varying ecological integrity (as categorized by the NJ Pinelands Commission) in the New Jersey pine barrens (USA). Using a series of laboratory manipulations of water from a pristine and...