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Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a free online resource for biodiversity
information, is excited to share our new Learning + Education monthly
newsletters. Each month we will be highlighting some of our free classroom
and field activities, lesson plans and online tools to explore
biodiversity.
Massachusetts is home to a great diversity of life, from the Berkshires to
Boston to the bay. Join us for the Boston City Nature Challenge – a fun
competition with cities across the country to document the most species
during April 14-18, 2017.
Any observation of plants, animals, fungi, even
What reference/citation format do you use? We would like to know so we can
suggest either one or more of the most often used citation formats to the
professors we work with.
Thanks,
Tracy
Encyclopedia of Life
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
of Life.
The benefits of this activity for students include an opportunity to
research and synthesize information to communicate science to the
general public. Students, instructors and institutions receive
attribution and recognition on the Encyclopedia of Life.
If interested, please contact Tracy
Position: Education Intern
Location: Okaloosa County, Florida
A part-time unpaid education intern position is available to assist in
the development of biodiversity tools and activities for a collaborative
K-12 STEM education grant with the Encyclopedia of Life project in
Okaloosa County,
Position: Education Intern
Location: Cambridge, MA
An education intern position is available to assist in the development
of biodiversity tools and activities for a collaborative K-12 STEM
education grant with the Encyclopedia of Life project. The Encyclopedia
of Life (EOL) is an
a cover letter and resume to:
Tracy Barbaro
tbarbaro(at)eol.org.
.
The benefits of this activity for students include an opportunity to
research and synthesize information to communicate science to the
general public. Students, instructors and institutions receive
attribution and recognition on the Encyclopedia of Life.
If interested, please contact Tracy Barbaro: tbarb
Sea grapes may sound tasty but in reality Caulerpa racemosa is a killer
algae taking over the oceans and squeezing out native species of marine
life.
Learn more in this Google Earth Tour video from the Encyclopedia of Life:
http://eol.org/info/disc_google_earth#invasive
Encyclopedia of Life
courses to participate this
fall semester to help test and develop a new contribution template for
this activity.
If interested, please contact Tracy Barbaro: tbarb...@eol.org
Developed by Dr. Breda Zimkus of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at
Harvard University, the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Frog Observer cards
provide information about key traits and techniques necessary to make
accurate and useful scientific observations.
You can find the Frog Cards (PDF and
Camouflage Resources From EOL and OBIS
An animals coloring, markings, shape or behavior can help it camouflage or
hide itself from predators or prey. Explore this EOL collection of species
that use camouflage to blend into their environments.
http://eol.org/collections/113842
Educational
Coral reefs are bustling cities of marine life, until rising ocean
temperatures turn them into ghost towns. Can reefs spring back from
devastating bleaching events?
Learn more in this podcast: http://eol.org/info/impacts#lessons and check
out the companion lesson plan from our partner,
Sea Butterflies (Pteropods) Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life
Sea Butterflies (Pteropods) are an integral part of the food web, and
they’re in danger because the chemistry of the world’s oceans is changing.
Learn more in this podcast: http://eol.org/info/ecology#lessons
Migratory Bird Resources
Explore this collection of information and multimedia about migrating
birds on the Encyclopedia of Life.
http://eol.org/collections/105714
About the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Our mission is to increase awareness and understanding of living nature
through an
Fungi Podcast and Lesson Plan
Learn how this mysterious form of life, neither animal nor vegetable,
shapes our world.
http://eol.org/info/ecology#lessons
The podcast and lesson plan are a collaboration between the Encyclopedia
of Life (http://eol.org) and National Geographic Education
Check out ecology focused articles, species collections, activities,
podcasts and scientist interviews on the Encyclopedia of Life.
http://eol.org/info/ecology
Encyclopedia of Life
Learning + Education
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Check out the redesigned Educational Resources pages from the Encyclopedia
of Life (EOL), organized by subject and themes. These pages include
relevant articles, EOL Species Collections, podcasts and lesson
plans/activities from EOL partners that can be used either to supplement
existing
A recent article from North Carolina State University explains how scientists
have combined cookies and citizen science to track the diversity of ant
species across the United States. Ants are the topic of this One Species at a
Time podcast, featuring an interview with ant expert, E.O. Wilson.
E. O. Wilsons Life on Earth is an innovative new iBooks Textbook for high
school biology students created by the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
Available for free on the iBooks Store, Life on Earth is accompanied by an
iTunes U course called Biology: Life on Earth. The iTunes U course
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is partnering with The Encyclopedia of Earth
(EoE), a free online source of reliable information about the environment
and Listen Edition, a company that creates teaching materials around
compelling public radio stories. Together, they are giving educators free
DNA markers in coral might enable scientist to identify individual corals and
study their genetic diversity. This information could provide clues to help
with the conservation of coral reefs.Examining coral reef diversity and
conservation is the subject of the One Species at a Time Coral
Scientists have recently discovered a fossil of a new organism, Plexus ricei
from the Ediacaran period. Plexus ricei is unique because it is bilaterally
symmetrical.Ediacaran Fauna, a diverse group of organisms that lived in the
world's oceans over 5 million years ago are featured in the One
Climate Change and Butterflies
Researchers are investigating why some butterfly species are emerging later
in warmer, urban environments. This surprising finding has scientists
questioning species responses to small versus larger increases in
temperature change. Climate change and butterfly
Could life on earth have started in deep sea vents? Scientists at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are testing this hypothesis and their current
work is reviewed in this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140409094330.htm.
Deep sea vents are teaming with life -
Ravens
Corvus Corax
Researchers studying baboons in Namibia recently reported that an individual
baboon's personality
predicted how well they would learn about a new food source from watching other
baboons, with
bolder and more anxious animals learning more successfully. Specific social
In 1832, during his voyage on the HMS Beagle that would provide fuel for his
revolutionary insights about evolution, Charles Darwin collected an enormous
number of specimens—including a rove beetle he collected in Argentina that
was rediscovered in a museum drawer in 2008. This beetle was recently
Freshwater fishes are an integral component of our environment, yet large
gaps persist in our scientific knowledge of their diversity, distribution,
and ecology. Several conservation groups recently joined forces to announce
the first Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz, which will allow
Giant Squid live in the deep
sea and are rarely seen by humans. Recently, however, some
Japanese fishermen accidentally captured a still living Giant Squid (it
died soon after being brought to the surface). Although glimpsing a living
Giant Squid is more cephalopod excitement than most
of us can
Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish
Pandea rubra
New results reported by the National Oceanography Centre suggest that 38
percent of deep ocean
life in the North Atlantic could be lost over the next century due to a
reduction of plant and animal
life in the upper levels of the oceans that feed
EOL Podcast Highlights - Women in Science
The following podcasts from the Encyclopedia of Life's One Species at a Time
Podcast series feature female scientists in the field! Listen to each podcast
and make sure to check out the Meet the Scientist interview links.
Dolphins Podcast
Stenella attenuata and Stenella longirostris
You have probably seen cans of tuna in your local supermarket marked dolphin
safe. That label means the tuna was fished in a way that spares most dolphins
from being killed in the tuna fleets giant nets. In this podcast, biologist
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL; eol.org) is a global effort to bring together
information about life on earth and make it freely available on-line.
EOL also has amazing images, videos, maps, classification information and
some fun educational applications such as a make your own field guide tool
Looking for an easy way to incorporate education and outreach into your
project? Create an EOL Memory Game to share with your audiences!
This is the classic game of Memory - remember where you saw a species and try
to find its match! There is also a quiz that challenges you to match species
Mexican long-nosed bats
Leptonycteris nivalis
The batman of Mexico has his own bat-cave. He just shares it with 4,000
Mexican long-nosed bats. In this podcast, join researcher Rodrigo Medellin as
he descends into the Devils Cave just north of Mexico City.
Listen to the podcast:
Encyclopedia of Life: Student Research and Writing Project
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, www.eol.org) is a global collaboration among
scientists and the general public to make authoritative information and
literature about all 1.9 million named species freely accessible online.
We are
Introducing M-EOL, a new mobile app and the winner of the EOL Education
Innovation Challenge! Created by Natural Solutions and available on iTunes
and Google Play.
Become an explorer, discovering different plant and animal species by
travelling around the world. Improve your knowledge about
Iron-oxidizing bacteria
Leptothrix ochracea, Gallionella, and Zetaproteobacteri
If you were driving along a highway in Maine - located on the east coast of
the United States - past pine trees and summer cottages, you might not give a
ditch of rust-colored water a second thought, unless you had
Saltwater Crocodile
Crocodylus porosus
The city of Darwin in Australias Northern Territory lies in the heart of
crocodile country. In the 1950s, saltwater crocodiles were shot, skinned, and
turned into shoes and handbags. After hunting was banned in the 1970s,
crocodile numbers climbed. Now
In our latest podcast we venture to Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of
California, to look into the mystery of the islands tiny foxes, descendants
of gray foxes who rafted over from the mainland more than ten thousand years
ago and branched off to form a new, smaller species.
Despite
Scottish Wildcat Podcast
Felis silvestris grampia
Theme: Threatened Species
Scottish Wildcats or Felis sylvestris grampia, have been around since the last
ice age. A symbol of strength and independence, the cats used to roam the
whole of Great Britain, but researchers believe there are now
Monarch Butterflies Google Earth Tour
A story about the migration of monarch butterflies, and the people that help
them out along the way.
Watch the Google Earth Tour video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqDwvuleRYc
Download the Google Earth KMZ file:
Get in touch with your inner science writer: announcing the Armchair
Taxonomist Challenge!
Humans have probably been naming things and making lists since our earliest
ancestors began to separate Stuff That Tastes Good from Stuff That Killed
That Other Guy That One Time.Trouble is, a lot of
Crawfish Podcast
Procambarus clarkii
For centuries, human commerce has played a role in distributing plant and
animal species around the globe. But not every species can claim the title of
circumnavigator. In this weeks episode, Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to the
Gulf Coast of the U.S. to
New Encyclopedia of Life Podcast
Black-tailed prairie dogs
Cynomys ludovicianus
Over the past century the grasslands of northern Mexico have been taken over
by shrubby mesquite and turned to desert. Ecologist Gerardo Cellabos is on a
mission to turn them back. Can he restore an entire prairie
an email to : educat...@eol.org.
Tracy Barbaro
Encyclopedia of Life
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Phone: 617.496.6764
Fax: 617.495.5667
www.eol.org
http://education.eol.org
Moths
Automeris io, Korscheltellus gracilis, Noctuidae
Likes moths to a flame, some people are irresistibly drawn to the woods at
night. Carrying bedsheets and armed with special lights and lures, they come
seeking moths. In July 2012, in 49 states and numerous countries across the
world,
New podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)!
Springtails
Collembola
Springtails are tiny creatures that live underfoot in the soil and leaf
litter. Most people are not even aware they exist. Until 2000, biologists
classified these curious animals as insects. Then new DNA evidence
Western silvery aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum)
When biologist Diana Bizecki Robson sits in the middle of the tallgrass
prairie in a park near Winnipeg, she sees starsthe tiny, bright flowers of
the western silvery aster. The prairie may seem a world away from our modern
lives, but Robson
The Biotrackers NSF project (http://biotrackers.net/) is pleased to announce
the launch of a mobile, citizen science crowdsourcing project in partnership
with iNaturalist, Leafsnap, and the Encyclopedia of Life. The goal of the
project is to dramatically increase the number of species that can
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, www.eol.org ) is a global collaboration among
scientists and the general public to make authoritative information and
literature about all 1.9 million named species freely accessible online.
The EOL team has begun a focused effort to assemble rich content for
Encyclopedia of Life Fellow Rosario Castañeda takes us to the back rooms of
Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology, searching through dozens of jars of
pickled anole lizards to see the traces of evolution in action. These faded
specimens dont much resemble these vivid animals in life, as they
Tulip Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)
Subject: Genetic Variation
Tulips(Tulipa)
When you think of the tools of the modern geneticist, the lowly razor blade
probably dont come to mind. But this low-tech tool is essential to the work
of Dutch geneticist and passionate
Fungi Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)
Hypholoma fasciculare and Amanita brunnescens
This weeks podcast begins with a riddle about a life form thats all around
us, yet rarely seen. Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into
almost every corner of the
New Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)
Marabou Stork
Leptoptilos crumeniferus
The marabou stork of southern Africa isnt much to look atits large,
ungainly, and bald like a vulture, with a nasty appetite for carrion. This
bird is increasingly making a home in urban areas
A friendly reminder that the EOL Education Innovation Challenge first round
deadline is this Friday March 23rd by 5:00 pm US Eastern Daylight Time.
The first round submission is a product idea that includes an overview of
the concept (1,500 words or less).
For more information see below and
Midas Fly Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)
Themes/Subject: Ecosystem changes, human impacts, indicator species.
Cresting a red sand dune, you come upon an unexpected sight in the desert: a
shimmering expanse of fresh water. This oasis is no mirage, but a lake
accidentally
Starlings Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life
This week, we hear a story in two acts about a very familiar birdthe common
starling. It's a non-native species that is omnivorous, gregarious, adaptable,
and highly successful in its adopted land. It turns out we humans have
inadvertently put
EOL Education Innovation Challenge
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is pleased to announce the EOL Education
Innovation Challenge, an international competition to foster development of
educational software tools, services, or games using EOL content. The
challenge is to use EOL content and
Ugandan Butterflies Podcast
Pieridae, Abisara neavei
The landscape of Uganda has changed radically, for butterflies as well as
people. Its change that can be measured in many waysin the inches of
rainfall, acres of forest clearedor the span of a tiny butterflys wings.
Learn more in our new
The Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org) has a new collection tool that allows
you to organize lists of species, information, media, maps, and sounds -
anything of interest to you from the Encyclopedia of Life- into a virtual
collection, that you can annotate and share.
Explore existing
Sanibel Shells Podcast from EOL
Sanibel Shells
Epitonium angulatum
In this podcast we join serious beachcombers along the high-tide line of
Sanibel Island, Florida. These shellers come in search of beautiful sea
shells, sometimes no bigger than a grain of rice, that are the remains of
Greenland Shark Podcast from The Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org)
Join shark expert Greg Skomal as he ventures under the Arctic ice in search of
the Greenland shark. Sharing this icy, blue twilight with an apex predator is
a thrill--so long as you dont end up being mistaken for a ringed seal,
Red Knot Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life
The red knot is a tiny shorebird that undertakes a mind-boggling migration
from the tip of South America all the way to the Arctic Circle. One of the few
stops on that marathon journey is the Delaware Bay, an estuary that offers a
banquet for
to : educat...@eol.org.
Tracy Barbaro
Encyclopedia of Life
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Phone: 617.496.6764
Fax: 617.495.5667
www.eol.org
http://education.eol.org
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, www.eol.org) is a free online source of
biodiversity information. Have you used EOL in your research, teaching or
learning? If so, we'd like to know about your experience.
Please send us an email at: educat...@eol.org
Thanks!
Tracy Barbaro
Encyclopedia of Life
When the cod fishery collapsed in Newfoundland in the early 1990s, the hopes
of the local fish harvesters collapsed with it. Hundreds of Newfoundlanders
moved away and businesses that depended on the cod fishery closed. But retired
schoolteacher Kit Ward of Portugal Cove South wasnt content to
The Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org), a free, online collaborative website
offering information about life on earth has some great new features!
Create a Virtual Collection
The Collections feature gives you the ability to gather together the pieces
of EOL that are of greatest interest to you
Theres a chill in the air this week as we travel to a mountain range in
Norway in search of muskoxen, Ice Age survivors that once roamed the far
north alongside the woolly mammoth. Introduced to Norway from Greenland in
the 1940s, muskoxen flourished on these cool, dry slopes until 2006, when
the
The Encyclopedia of Life v2
The Encyclopedia of Life, an effort to bring together authoritative
information about all life on earth has a new look and new features!
Communities and Collections
It is now easier to personalize content on EOL, and to interact with fellow
enthusiasts worldwide.
Spider Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Branch-tip Spiders
Dictyna
The hills near Missoula, Montana, are changing, native grasses and other
plants increasingly squeezed out by nonnative plants. Knapweed, cinquefoil,
and other weeds arent only changing the look of this ecosystem but
Water Hyacinth Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
It may have pretty purple flowers, but Eichhornia crassipes can be a green
menace. Introduced to Africa from the neotropics, this invasive weed is
choking Lake Victoria, the worlds second largest lake. Water hyacinth has
carpeted
Red Paper Latern Jellyfish Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Vacuumed up from its habitat a mile down in the ocean, the red paper lantern
jelly may not look like much. Mostly water, its so fragile that once
brought to the surface its reduced to a tattered blob in a jar. But this
One Species at a Time Podcast Series from the Encyclopedia of Life
Red-shouldered Soapberry Bug
Jadera haematoloma
In the lab at American University in Washington, DC, evolutionary biologist
David Angelini and graduate student Stacey Baker are studying a snazzy red-
and-black insect called the
Quinine Tree Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life
Cinchona pubescens
http://education.eol.org/podcast
In a large greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis,
Missouri, there grows a slender sapling of Cinchona pubescens, a tree that
has played a remarkable role in human history.
E.O. Wilson Podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life
Renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent his long career
cracking the code of ants. Its the ants ability to communicate and form
tight-knit societies that lies behind their extraordinary evolutionary
success. Ari Daniel Shapiro
One Species at a Time Podcast Series from the Encyclopedia of Life
Lichens
Xanthoparmelia plittii and Umbilicaria mammulata
Most of us walk past lichen-covered rocks, splotched with grays, greens, and
golds, without giving them a closer look. Ari Daniel Shapiro visits with
mycologist Anne
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