I am excited to let you know about the publication of:
Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the
rest of life on Earth
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1907962522/ref=nosim?tag=cranmorpublic-20
http://www.cranmorepublications.co.uk/73
Here is the amazon info:
Announcing “Field and Laboratory Techniques in Vertebrate Biology” a new text
for field courses in Vertebrate Biology, Wildlife Biology, Ecology,
Conservation Biology. With over 50 exercises for students in 9 chapters, this
manual will introduce students to many of the modern field techniques
Please share this announcement with others who may be interested.
2012 NATURAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS at the UWM FIELD STATION
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Station conducts a series of
Natural History Workshops. These workshops offer an opportunity to study
focused topics at
You can try the Climate Literacy Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) at
cleanet.org.
The site has hundreds of educational resources for middle school, high school,
and undergraduate students that are both scientifically sound and pedagogically
effective. Several of the resources are videos (see
How can you claim that the idea that we cannot do without the rest of
the planet's biodiversity, but it can do very well without us, is
completely and utterly wrong, given that life did just fine for 4
billion years without us? I suggest that is a powerful and irrefutable
empirical rejection
Post-doctoral Research Associate position is available in Rhizosphere
Microbial Ecology/Microbiomics at Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
The post-doc will study the microbial community associated with the plant
root-zone using genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic tools. PhDs with
http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html reports that Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds have already arrived in Canada this month (3 weeks
earlier than last year). What wildflowers do they usually visit
during their spring migration, and are they already in bloom?
David Inouye
3 volunteers needed from July / August to November / December 2012
as field assistants for the project:
Socio-Ecology of small Mammals in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa
Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for
anybody who wants to get more experience in field
work relating to
Hi David,
I wonder what they are eating way up in Canada already. High bush blueberry
(Vaccinium corymbosum) (yes, white flowers) and pinxter flower or pinxter
azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides, syn: R. nudiflorum) are some
attractions and they are not flowering yet in southern New England.
DAVID . . .
My guess is that this may be one of those years when sapsucker wells--those
horizontal, sap-oozing holes made by Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers--may be of more
importance than usual in the northern part of the ruby-throat's range. (See
images at
Hi,
I have a grad student in China at the moment looking at ways of designing
wildlife corridors through a national park. She has now realized she needs to
find some way of designing migration corridors based upon the steep topography
in the park. Does anyone have some good sources of
There is much excellent literature on corridor design for various taxa. Good
places to start might be
Machtans, C.S., M. Villard and S.J. Hannon. 1996. Use of riparian
buffer strips as movement corridors by forest birds. Conservation Biology 10:
1366-1379.
Naiman, R.J. and
Hi all,
My lab mate, Geoff Giller, and myself are studying the effects of suburbia
on endocrine disrupting pollutants in water and how these pollutants are
affecting several frog species. We have a video up on the new science
crowd-funding site, PetriDish.org. The video and page are on this link
Application Deadline: May 1, 2012.
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announces the availability of ten
(10) travel awards of $500 each to students presenting papers at ESA's
2012 Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. These awards are sponsored by the
Strategic Environmental Research and
Thanks for this.
We seem to agree on quite a lot.
However, I seek to persuade people in my books that the extinction of the
human species would ultimately lead to the extinction of all life on Earth,
rather than a new era of evolution (although my view is compatible with a
very short new era
I'm sorry, but you'll have to offer more evidence than you have before
I'll plunk down $20 for a book that might just be full of nonsense.
Speaking both as a scholar and as a consumer, nothing I've seen here on
or on the Amazon site entices me to spend either the money or time on
your thesis.
A few years ago, a few of us ecology, economics, and business graduates
founded a nonprofit organization called Third Millennium Alliance. We raised
some money and bought a lot of land in a critically-endangered rainforest
and established an ecological reserve. There was a small patch of
Third Millennium Alliance is a US non-profit organization based in Ecuador.
Our mission is to preserve the last remnants of Pacific Equatorial Forest in
coastal Ecuador and the wide range of endangered and endemic species therein
contained. In 2007 we established the Jama-Coaque Ecological
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