Graphical Abstract “The most exciting thing about my research is helping others to grow as scientists and people … The best advice I have ever been given ‘Always be on the lookout for presence of wonder,’ a fantastic quote from E. B. White by way Prof. Scott Miller …” Find out more Julian West in his Introducing Profile.

The Utah State Paratuberculosis (Johne’s Disease) Control Program is part of the US nationwide Voluntary Bovine Johne’s Disease Control Program. Nearly every state in the US has a similar Johne’s Disease (JD) control program, and they are seeing the same trends as we have in Utah: dairy veterinarians and producers are participating in JD testing at levels that have progressed from low to extrem...

Vegetation phenology is considered a sensitive indicator of terrestrial ecosystem response to global climate change. We used a satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index to investigate the spatiotemporal changes in the green-up date over the Three-Rivers Headwater Region (TRHR) from 1999 to 2013 and characterized their driving forces using climatic data sets. A significant advance...

The literature survey reviews our present understanding of the Madden Julian Oscillation. This perturbation to the circulation of the tropical atmosphere involves anomalies in climate elements such as pressure, wind, outgoing long wave radiation, and temperature. It is successfully simulated by the present generation of general climate and atmospheric general circulation models. The literature ...