Blake Simmons

Oct 26, 2024 | mdpi.com | Brian Taylor |Nikhil Kumar |Dhirendra Mishra |Blake Simmons

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Oct 8, 2024 | preprints.org | Brian Taylor |Nikhil Kumar |Dhirendra Mishra |Blake Simmons

Preprint Review Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 3 October 2024 / Approved: 7 October 2024 / Online: 8 October 2024 (11:22:13 CEST) Taylor, B.; Kumar, N.; Mishra, D. K.; Simmons, B. A.; Choudhary, H.; Sale, K. L. Computational Advances in Ionic Liquid Applications for Green Chemistry: A Critical Review of Lignin Processing and Machine Learning Approaches. Preprints 2024, 2024100430. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.0430.v1 Taylor, B.; Kumar, N.; Mishra, D.

Sep 25, 2024 | tdworld.com | Blake Simmons

As the supervisor of vegetation management at City Utilities of Springfield, I have seen firsthand just how important it is to make sure the community is involved and educated in utility vegetation management. Over the years, we have been working to engage with the community, and recently, we have received beneficial assistance from our contractors. In Springfield, City Utilities has been bringing the community together and providing education on vegetation management through various events.

Nov 20, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Blake Simmons |Marcus W. Beck |Jessica Lewis |Kerry Flaherty-Walia

AbstractFor decades, federal protections were extended to wetlands adjacent to navigable "waters of the US" by the Clean Water Act. In its Sackett v. EPA ruling, however, the US Supreme Court redefined the meaning of "adjacent," eliminating protections to wetlands without a continuous surface connection to these waters (i.e., geographically isolated wetlands).

Mar 9, 2023 | nature.com | Yu Gao |Igor V. Grigoriev |Jenny C. Mortimer |John Ralph |Blake Simmons |Steven Singer | +3 more

AbstractLignocellulose forms plant cell walls, and its three constituent polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, represent the largest renewable organic carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere. Insights into biological lignocellulose deconstruction inform understandings of global carbon sequestration dynamics and provide inspiration for biotechnologies seeking to address the current climate crisis by producing renewable chemicals from plant biomass.