For Environmental Scientists

[RCIAGraduate]

while Climate Change is a significant issue and topic at this time(well apparently for awhile), is it the one central point for most environmental scientists, conservationists, and occupations related to ecology?

Or do most focus on other matters such as regional and local problems like soil erosion or other ecological ramifications such as resource depletion.

I understand that they’re [matters of environment and ecology] all intertwined but are the majority of such experts and specialists across disciplines focused on Climate Change at the moment?

Have a wonderful October.

 

[Just_Lurking]

I think there are a wide variety of issues being studied, each using different mathematical techniques. One team that I know of is studying bat disease (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nose_syndrome) using discrete math, as opposed to the partial differential equation solving that weather/climate scientists use.

 

[LeafByNiggle]

I think there are a wide variety of issues being studied, each using different mathematical techniques. One team that I know of is studying bat disease (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nose_syndrome) using discrete math, as opposed to the partial differential equation solving that weather/climate scientists use.

Hey, I’m into discrete math too. But I didn’t see anything in the Wikipedia article about it. Can you give me a reference to this application? Is it graph theory? Combinatorics?

 

[Stephen_says]

Hi!

So I am actually an Environmental Scientist. I’m not a research scientist, but anyway, my field of work is dealing with agricultural pests and diseases, many of which are non-native invasive species, such as an insect originally from one country which was accidentally introduced to another country, and because of a lack of natural enemies in their new home, they tend to cause significant economic losses.

There are ESs who deal with water quality, air quality, the health of animal populations, etc., so environmental science really covers all sorts of more specialized fields, from entomology to climatology. We humans make a lot of problems for ourselves, and ESs are just trying to clean it up. I’m not sure why climate change gets so much more air-time than anything else, maybe it’s politics.

 

[Just_Lurking]

Hey, I’m into discrete math too. But I didn’t see anything in the Wikipedia article about it. Can you give me a reference to this application? Is it graph theory? Combinatorics?

The research was from 2012, but I can’t seem to find any references on it now. From what I remember, it was large-scale graph theory on a supercomputer.