Since Lyne brought up whaling I'm curious whether anyone has a (professional
or personal/professional) opinion on the International Whaling Commission
upcoming vote on opening the world oceans to whaling again. Are people aware
that this is on the table this June's IWC meeting in Morocco? It
Wayne, my source is Webster's New World College Dictionary (2006 -- I find
it helps to upgrade one's dictionary every decade or so).
In this source there are 3 noun definitions -- a picture of scenery, the
branch of art dealing with such pictures, and an expanse of natural scenery;
plus 1 verb
Wendee has not mentioned the charismatic aspect of whales, not the cuteness
of baby harp seals and pandas, but their intelligence. Like the great apes,
whales appear to be very intelligent and we tend to feel more protective of
intelligent animals than of worms and anemones (our attitude
Landscape ecologists often study the effects of the spatial pattern of the land
on various ecological processes. So 'landscape' does make sense since land
patterning might result from processes that 'hack' the land into patterns?
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RK Bangert,
Although migrant Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have been back in the Carolinas for
at least a couple of weeks, people elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada have
contacted us about when to expect their first hummers; thus, our latest edition
of This Week at Hilton Pond includes a North American
Adding to Warren, Beyond old artistic paintings of landscapes and scientific
conceptualizations; the ontology of landscape ecology is synthesized for
the Dutch school of thought by Zonneveld in 1984, like a horse riding
among geography, ecology, cultures, and the power of knowledge to shape a
Warren, I'm all for updating, but I also recognize that all scholarship is
not always perfect. Either American Heritage was in error, or Webster hacked
out the earlier definition intentionally or unintentionally. Just because
2006 comes fifty years after 1956 doesn't necessarily mean that it is
Hi folks,
Are you interested in hosting the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference
next year?
This years MEEC committee is looking for proposals from graduate student
groups to host MEEC 2011. Proposals are due on Friday, April 23, 2010.
Please limit your proposal to 2 pages
The Biology Program at Bard College is seeking applicants for a
full-time, two-year visiting faculty position, beginning in the fall of
2010. The successful candidate will teach a biostatistics course one
semester each year, a 100-level course each semester and an advanced
seminar course one
