This is the manuscript for the talk that I presented at the Koerner Center’s Intellectual Trajectories Seminar in September 2016

The statistics of extrasolar planetary systems indicate that the default mode of planet formation generates planets with orbital periods shorter than 100 days and masses substantially exceeding that of the Earth. When viewed in this context, the Solar System is unusual. Here, we present simulations which show that a popular formation scenario for Jupiter and Saturn, in which Jupiter migrates in...

Freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity provide fundamental services to humans such as nutritional resources production, water provisioning, purification, recreation, more globally climate regulation. Anthropogenic impacts on freshwater are already strong will most probably increase in the near future. drivers widely known include particular, change, habitat shrinking and/or modification d...