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Through synthesis research, our working groups make big-picture discoveries in both basic and applied ecology and environmental science. Their big insights advance scientific knowledge and help solve complex questions and challenges about the natural world.

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Global impacts of climate change on kelp forest ecosystems

Principal Investigator(s): Jarrett E. Byrnes, Sean D. Connell, Mark Novak
Completed
Synthesizing frontiers in modeling drought- and insect-induced tree mortality with climate change

Principal Investigator(s): William R. L. Anderegg, Rosie A. Fisher, Jeffrey A. Hicke
Completed
Venture: Understanding how land-use change impacts the dynamics of vector-borne and water borne infectious disease of humans and domestic livestock

Principal Investigator(s): Andrew P. Dobson, Nita Bharti, Matthew H. Bonds
Completed
Conceptualizing an Institute for Sustainable Earth and Environmental Software (ISEES)

Principal Investigator(s): Matthew B. Jones, Mark P. Schildhauer
Completed
Ocean tipping points (formerly Ecosystem thresholds and indicators for marine spatial planning)

Principal Investigator(s): Carrie V. Kappel, Benjamin S. Halpern, Kimberly A. Selkoe
Completed
Advancing theory and research on scientific synthesis

Principal Investigator(s): John N. Parker, Edward J. Hackett
Completed
Ecotoxicology of the gulf oil spill: A holistic framework for assessing impacts

Principal Investigator(s): Sean S. Anderson, Gary Cherr, Charles H. Peterson
Completed
Ocean Health Index

Principal Investigator(s): Benjamin S. Halpern
Active
A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of beta-diversity along ecological gradients

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan M. Chase, Amy L. Freestone, Nathan J. Sanders
Completed
DataONE: Observation Network for Earth

Principal Investigator(s): Matthew B. Jones, Stephanie E. Hampton
Active