From Small Pond Science by Project Biodiversify We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this. We contain multitudes. Like an ecological niche, a person’s identity is composed of infinite dimensions that make up a person or group’s collective identity space (Figure 1). However, in science – a discipline that has historically valued objective and…
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UMich SEEDS partners with D-Town Farm for 2018 BioBlitz
BioBlitz attendees circle up to share lessons from the event. Photo Credit: Naim Edwards by Naim Edwards (UM EEB M.S. 2014) Director, Michigan State University Detroit Partnership in Food, Learning and Innovation and Tiffany Carey, previously science outreach coordinator, U-M EEB Nyeema Harris AWE Lab and currently, Habitat and Education Coordinator, National Wildlife Foundation, Great…
Frogs, conservation and the agricultural matrix
From the James Lab Brazil Blog by Anat M. Belasen, a University of Michigan graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology The “teenage” Aparasphenodon brunoi. Image: Anat Belasen. Conservation can sometimes seem like an amorphous, nebulous, unattainable goal. One school of thought believes the goal of conservationists is to restore abused land to primary forest.…
#ScanAllSnakes (yes, all of them!)
From Michigan Biodiversity Asian mock vipers, Psammodynastes pulverulentus. Images: Wikipedia The Rabosky and Davis Rabosky labs at the University of Michigan are generating high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scans for all of the world’s snakes – and will make these data publicly available for use by the research community, with no restrictions. This idea is motivated by…
First EcoDía engages Finca Irlanda students in rich ecology of their home
Pollination games. by Gordon Fitch, a University of Michigan graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology The John Vandermeer lab, along with the lab of Ivette Perfecto at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), has been conducting research in Finca Irlanda, an organic coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for nearly 20…