Calling attention to this comedian's “mathematically representative climate
change debate, with the help of special guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, of
course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg
Cheers,
Ben
Dr. Benjamin Fertig
Assistant Professor
I have been observing this for some time now. Organisms and their habitats are
being written out of biology, so far as direct experience with them is
concerned. We soon will have no means of knowing what is going on in nature,
as no one will be investigating nature, or even have a clue as to
Thanks for bringing this topic up Dr. Inouye.
You know what they saySpecialists learn more and more about less
and less until someday they will know everything about nothing.
It's even happening at the High School level. I was once given carte
blanche to to re-design an ailing advanced
This is what happens when departments/schools jump on fads and/or new
ideas 100% at the expense of other areas. Today, this is happening
with nanotech and bioinformatics. There is always a new wave of
things to add. The problem is not sacrificing the old in pursuit of
bringing in the new. This
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
It seems like the land grant institutions still have productive applied
programs with many field-based ecology courses and studies. The Wildlife
Society and other organizations still have conferences with many presentations
of studies of field-based data collection.
Christopher R. Ayers
Sure, many do. However,
I just interviewed at a land grant last week that had only ichthyology
from what I could see.
I guess they could have been hidden somewhere and I missed them. Its
not that hard to miss! :)
M
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Chris Ayers cay...@cfr.msstate.edu wrote:
It
I work at a small private primarily undergraduate school and we are currently
ramping up our field courses, especially associated with our new Urban Ecology
program. We plan to integrate more molecular techniques and other lab based
techniques into the field courses, to show students that
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At the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Kansas City this past January, I
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the cutting edge of natural resource research. The programs that have nearly
all but vanished are from large research institutions that
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I think these changes are symptomatic of both the rush to perceived new
trends (and hence funding opportunities of course) and an increasing
disinterest in natural history (which has been mentioned on the list numerous
times). It is hard to see how to oppose these trends. I have just been to a
Will you or your colleague be attending the Ecological Society of America
Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA this year? If so, you might wish to take
advantage of our SEEDS Diversity in Ecology Grad School and Careers Fair to
promote your graduate programs, REUs, internships or jobs etc. with
It's not just a US issue - we have seen similar pressures to reduce the field
component in degrees in the UK and across Europe.
It's worth reading the piece by Robert Arlinghaus (pages 212-215) in the May
issue of Fisheries http://fisheries.org/docs/wp/UFSH395_final_web.pdf (PDF),
where he
Those of us in the wildlife field have noticed the same trend for a while. It
has prompted some folks to use the professional society as a vehicle to provide
field-based training opportunities. The Northeast Section of The Wildlife
Society started a 2-week field course for college students,
Hello Mates,
just to add from India also some direction, here is
the same dilemma..now ecology students are demotivated by
biotechnological advances and ecological students have to divert their
career because biotech and biochemistry student replacing them very
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