by Ellen Brennan

**Editor's note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA.

The past decade has seen enormous landscape transformations, whether from the expansion of agriculture, wildfires like those in Australia and California, or even the slow changes of ecosystems. Such dramatic changes have led to an increased demand for...

by Clair Geary

Over the last century, deaths and disability from infectious diseases have declined, largely due to improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and vaccines. These days, we often hear more about the hypothetical risks of vaccination rather than the very real dangers posed by the diseases these vaccines prevent. Increasing numbers of worried parents now choose to delay, or even forgo, vaccinating their children. A prime example is measles: while the disease was officially eliminated from the US in 2000 (...