Ecologist | Writer | Educator | Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University. AKA Katie. Find me at @flinnlab.bsky.social
Berea, Ohio
Joined August 2015
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"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35
ALT WORKING LIFE Four lessons for being a great mentor to undergrads. Illustration shows two individuals walking through darkness, one using a flashlight that shines a light on various symbols
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Ecologists seek to understand how species distributions relate to environmental factors, but often these relationships are radically human-altered. @Flinnlab et al use historical data & SDMs to understand the presettlement distributions of forest trees. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70007
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The remarkable story of the dawn redwood – how a living fossil long thought extinct brought humanity together in the middle of a World War themarginalian.org/2023/01/3…
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Biodiversity loss is not only about extinctions
It is also the degradation of ecosystems - supporting a few generalist species, with reduced food webs, & looking the same wherever you go
As seen over much of the UK
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My first ever opinion piece for the @guardian! In it, I delve into the Wood Wide Web, the rise of scientific myths (including the Great Wood of Caledon), and why we should not fear difficult ideas.
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Is there a #woodwideweb? For @Nature_news I look at the science behind this idea – and how scientists working in #forestecogy, #soils and #fungi feel about popular claims that trees care for each other via a fungal network in the soil bit.ly/3PNursZ
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Here's your friendly reminder that the best time to prune a Bradford Pear is any time your saw is sharp, and the ideal cut is horizontal and 4 inches from the ground. This is mostly for you @drdavecoyle.
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BW faculty and student researching together ~ Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study tracks the change ideastream.org/environment-e…
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Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study from @BaldwinWallace @FlinnLab tracks the change. Terrific coverage by @Ideastream News 🌳
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“We soon learned that far greater threat to the land lay in road-building than in logging the timber.”
For the latest @SmithsonianMag, I wrote about the history of public lands road construction and the movement to unmake our infrastructure. #roadecology
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Do you know any students or recent graduates interested in exploring park careers? We post paid and unpaid internships at nps.gov/cuva/getinvolved/sup…. We currently have two openings in community engagement and one in our archives. Details are in the link. Photo: NPS/Penny Uhlenbrock.
ALT A young man and woman wearing volunteer uniforms stand behind a pop-up exhibit table by a park trailhead bulletin board.
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Great Lakes ice cover is at a record low for mid-February.
• The below average snow and ice and unusually mild conditions are likely tied to climate change and a more transient El Niño climate pattern. trib.al/QK3k8ph
ALT A line chart showing the ice cover on the Great lakes since 1973. this year is projected to be below average, with January 1st having the lowest coverage in 50 years.
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Parking is often a concern for new development, but we wanted to provide some concrete numbers for context. We conducted a parking study for a suburban commercial corridor in Cuyahoga County and found more than 75% of parking spots were empty at all times.
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How Cleveland built a city devoted to parking -- and how it's trying to undo the damage and win over skeptics clevescene.com/news/how-clev…
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Check out our new paper showing how invasive earthworms erode multiple biodiversity facets of northern temperate forests, expertly lead by @ThouvenotLise #OpenAccess @iScience_CP 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109036
ALT Visual summary of publication on the impacts of invasive earthworms.
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Our new paper describes the 1,150 species we found in our urban backyard in @brisbanecityqld over 1yr. Trees, shrubs, & weeds (instead of manicured lawn) provided lots of habitat for a shocking amount of wildlife on an urban lot doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4225 in @ESAEcology
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Examining what happened to NE Ohio's forests - Urban Ecosystems research & recommendations by @BaldwinWallace biology professor Kathryn Flinn (@FlinnLab) & a student co-investigator. 🌲🍃🌳
Story via @SceneSallard for @Axios #Cleveland.
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Congrats Cuyahogans! We’ve reached the halfway mark toward the EPA delisting the #CuyahogaRiver as an Area of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin. From the river that burned to the river that returned, this is the #FreshwaterCapital
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Cats 🐈⬛ 🐈 kill 1.85 billion birds 🦜🕊🪶 every year in the #US
But no calls for cats to be banned
Buildings 🏢 kill 675 million birds
Vehicles 🚛🚙 214 million birds
We poison ☠️ 72 million birds
Wind turbines kill just 328,000 and #climatechange deniers want to ban them!
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It's that time of year again! The season of Torrey research #grants is upon us - every year we support exciting botanical #research from students at the undergrad, masters and doctoral level. Check out our website for more details! torreybotanical.org/grants-a…
#botany
