Last November, Binghamton Unversity-SUNY’s WHRW station shared this message as part of their program ‘Broadcasting World Literature’: “Today, since it’s Thanksgiving…
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Biodiversity Thanksgiving Reading List
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Biodiversity Looking for Human-Nature Connections in Seasonal Wikipedia Searches
Recently, I was wrapping up some revisions on a phenology paper and to comply with the journal’s style for taxonomy, I needed…
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Biodiversity Bumble and Bumble: what’s black and yellow and maybe more than one species?
During the dark afternoons of December in New England, I like to scroll through my old field photos and think of all…
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Biodiversity Summer Reading (Part 1)
We’re rushing out of the dog days of summer and into the start of a new semester — or in my case the…
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Biodiversity Hidden in Plain Sight: the Secret Tree Diversity of Cultural National Parks in the East
Last summer, my daughter received All Aboard! National Parks, a whimsical board book that devotes full-page spreads of colorful, kid-friendly illustrations to nine…
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Biodiversity Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side…
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Biodiversity National Parks are for the Birds
Happy National Parks week! While I tend to plan trips around plants — Thuja plicata in Olympic National Park, Lathyrus japonicas at…
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Biodiversity Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
As flowers began to bloom and leaves slowly emerge in the northern hemisphere this time of year, most people are thinking about…
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Biodiversity Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: Trees and Student Performance
Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been…
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Biodiversity The “Big Ideas” in Ecology
If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Biodiversity The most talked about research of 2017
While citations to academic papers are easy to track (see Google Scholar, World of Science), it’s quite informative to see what research…