We are looking for candidates that want to apply for an FCT (Portuguese
Foundation for Science and Technology) doctoral fellowship to join us at
the Centre for Functional Ecology (cfe.uc.pt) of the Department of Life
Sciences of the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
The successful candidate
We don’t need to have a linguistic discussion, because labeling a process
consisting of unintended arrival, survival and successful reproduction of
organisms an “invasion” is a conceptual, categorical error. That makes it
a philosophical discussion, but hardly an arcane one. I'll only use a few
Forestry has undergraduate accreditation
Tammy
Tamara L. Cushing, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Forest Management and Economics
Clemson University
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[ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Jane
If this a serious question, any number of undergraduate-level professional
programs may be accredited: Landscape architecture, architecture, medical
programs, teacher education, accounting, etc.
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com wrote:
What disciplines other
Instead of addressing
actual curriculum
(except to say I
agree cellular/microbiology is a turn-off for the majority of non-biologists),
I want to emphasize context through interaction with off-campus scientists and
current events. Biology majors already know how the subject relates to them
but
I believe chemistry has undergraduate accreditation requirements from acs.
Stuart
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http://people.UNCW.edu/borretts
On May 28, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Jane Shevtsov jane@gmail.com wrote:
What disciplines other than engineering have departmental
accreditation at the
I've had good feedback from students in my ecology and conservation
biology classes about spending the first few minutes of each class on
some story in the news that relates to the class. Comments from the
students suggested that they appreciated my effort to show them how
the material they
Hi all,
I have read this listserv for a good while but have never wrote until now.
I already deleted several of the previous emails so I don¹t remember who
said what. However. I want to make two points:
1- Somebody suggested that a list of suggested topics were more
appropriate in an
Does anyone know what the net CO2 atmospheric release from
coastal temperate wetlands would be when they are reclaimed for use for
fish or shrimp ponds or for growing terrestrial crops?
Many thanks
David Duffy
--
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
Botany
University of Hawaii
3190 Maile Way
I find this discussion very interesting, perhaps as I am in the majority
Matt describes who hadn't thought about the term invasive all that much.
(Perhaps I should point out that my background is in how scientists and
non-scientists think about environmental systems. As such, I hope I might
have
Its coming soon.
Here is the European version.
http://www.societyofbiology.org/education/hei/accreditation
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Malcolm L. McCallum
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
School of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri at Kansas City
Managing Editor,
Herpetological Conservation and
The course-defining criteria should be: What do you want the students to
become because they took your course and what do you want them to do because
of what they became?
As Francisco says, ...true passionate interest could be elicited from a
class for at least some topics that are much more
This subject all boils down to a simple question Why do I have to study (any)
subjects that are boring, irrelevant, a turn-off, and learn little from them?
That's what every school age children ask their parents and educators. Now,
educators are asking Why do I have to teach subjects that
In response to Richard Plate’s question about neutrality: first, I suggest
that you have a look at Colautti and MacIsaac’s “neutral terminology”
proposal in Diversity and Distributions 10:135-141 (2004). I think their
attempt was commendable, but it ultimately failed for the same reasons the
June _Scientific American_ has an excellent article that very effectively
relates microbiology to the lives of students. It considers the ecology of
human symbiotic microbes. More microbiology of this kind, and less
memorization of how microbial cells metabolize could be quite meaningful in a
Definition of INVADE
1
: to enter and spread within either normally (as in development) or
abnormally (as in infection) often with harmful effects protect the
body from invading viruses branches of a nerve invade the skin area
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Matt Chew anek...@gmail.com wrote:
My understanding is that exotic refers basically to a species that has
been transported by humans some time after the Columbian Exchange -which
is a phrase coined by Alfred Crosby that refers to rapid, and radical,
alteration of patterns of global commerce following the time of Columbus.
As a
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