In cooperation with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and other federal and
state agencies, the Great Basin Institute is recruiting field technicians
and support staff to help implement the 2008 Desert Tortoise Line Distance
Sampling (LDS) Monitoring program. The desert tortoise (Gopherus
agassi
Location: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in collaboration with
Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory (USDA-ARS), Temple, Texas.
Position description - the student will join an NSF-funded project testing
how species diversity and plant-plant interactions might differ between
native
I am a nationwide expert on bioenergy research, and I can say
truthfully that there is no way that fuels derived from manures and
other forms of waste, indeed from all types of biomass can come close
to replacing (in a sustainable manner) all of the fossil fuels we
use. The volumes of petroleum
In revolutionary times no one could imagine life without whale oil for
their lamps. By the 1800s no one could imagine heat without wood and coal
to heat their home, to run steam locomotives, and steam ships, and the
horse was a staple mode of travel. By the mid-1900s coal slowly left the
home and