Contact: Mark C. Urban
mark.urban@uconn.edu
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University of Connecticut

Mark C. Urban, University of Connecticut

Caption: University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Mark Urban stands under a sheet of aufeis in Alaska. These ice sheets form over Arctic underground springs but have become less prevalent with global warming. Urban, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, fears that current climate change models may grossly underestimate future extinctions because they fail to account for species competition and movement.

Credit: Mark Urban

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