by labroides | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized |
As the director of the MA in Conservation Biology program I read ever single application that comes in. This means that most of my January break is spent carefully going over each of anywhere from between 85 and 120 applications. I thought I might do everyone a favor...
by labroides | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Digitization and Diversity in Museum Collections. Today I took my Ichthyology class to see the fish collections at the American Museum of Natural History.This place has been part of my research life ever since I was an REU there in 1999 and I love taking a new group...
by labroides | Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized |
We have a new paper out in PLOS this week “Quantifying the Human Impacts on Papua New Guinea Reef Fish Communities across Space and Time” and I’m really excited about it for a number of reasons. First, the science. This paper started out with an expedition Mark...
by labroides | Oct 10, 2015 | Uncategorized |
We had a new paper out this week that I’m very excited about. This paper, headed by Ruth Thurstan, is the result of a symposium at the 2014 International Marine Conservation Congress in Scotland focusing on Historical Ecology. This is a field that I’ve been thinking a...
by labroides | Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
These views are my own and do not represent those of my employer. On October 1st, 2015 a gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College killing at least 10. This was the 294th mass shooting (a shooting with 4+ victims) this year, and we currently have had 20 more mass...