Environmental and Earth Sciences

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Carl Safina Talks Critter Culture, Communication and Complexity of Animal Emotions on Skaana

Mark Leiren-Young Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Policy and Politics
Written by Izzy Almasi  Have you ever watched an animal in the wild or, perhaps, in a nature documentary and wondered what their life is like? Sure, they live on the same planet as us, breathe the same air, exist under the same sky. But it can feel like they live in another world. According to renowned ecologist and author, Carl Safina, animals and humans have much in common. It’s actually cultural differences between humans…

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MSc position, Bees@School project – Fall 2021

Dirk Steinke Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
 Changing wild bee species distributions and pollination service shiftsA MSc graduate student position is available in my research group in the Department of Integrative Biology at the College of Biological Sciences - University of Guelph. Research in our group focusses on biodiversity genomics and the development of metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches for biodiversity research. We seek not only information on how communities are composed but also how its members are interconnected and interdependent. In addition to simply counting…

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Future proof

Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences
Last week I wrote about the turmoil many subsurface professionals are experiencing today. There’s no advice that will work for everyone, but one thing that changed my life (ok, my career at least) was learning a programming language. Not only because programming computers is useful and fun, but also because of the technology insights it brings. Whether you’re into data management or machine learning, workflow automation or just being a more rounded professional, there really…

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Carl Safina on Animal Culture, Sperm Whale Society and Cetacean Communication

Mark Leiren-Young Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Policy and Politics
Carl Safina (@carlsafina) author of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace talks about the culture of animals, the worlds of whale and sharing the planet -with @Skaanapod host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung). Skaana connects you to stories about oceans, eco-ethics and the environment. Join the Pod……https://www.patreon.com/mobydoll Spotify……………www.bit.ly/spotify-skaana Apple Podcasts………www.skaana.ca The Orca Bites Podcast (on anchor) ………www.orcabites.com – Skaana home……www.skaana.org Skaana on Medium……www.orcatales.com Our Latest Orca Videos…www.jpod.news – Facebook…………https://www.facebook.com/skaanapod/ Twitter……………https://twitter.com/leirenyoung Instagram…………https://www.instagram.com/skaanapod/…

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Meet CMN’s new Executive Director, Dr. Monique Dubé!

Chenoa Sly Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science
Dr. Monique Dubé, Executive Director, Canadian Mountain Network The Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) is pleased to welcome our newly appointed Executive Director Dr. Monique Dubé to our dynamic and interdisciplinary team. Dr. Dubé is responsible for providing operational leadership, direction, and oversight to the Canadian Mountain Network, as well as supporting the collaborative development of network strategy with the Network’s co-Research Directors and the Board of Directors. An executive leader and environmental scientist with over…

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Mushrooming and Mothing in Mendocino County, One Month in Gualala, CA

chloevanloon Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
From mid December 2020 to mid January 2021 the Mister and I explored the beautiful area around Gualala, California. The small and friendly town of Gualala is positioned right on the Pacific coast at the southern end of Mendocino County, about 3 hours north of the Golden Gate Bridge.  We chose this area to spend the beginning of winter in order to search for mushrooms! This area of California hosts an insane diverse array of…

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Cows, Creosotes, and Checkerboards

Amanda Tracey Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
This week we welcome Dr. Kaiya Provost to the blog. Kaiya is a Postdoc at the Ohio State University working with Bryan Carstens on bioacoustics and phylogeography of North American birds. For more about Kaiya, see the end of this post or find her on Twitter @KaiyaProvost. Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2016, is where my hatred of cows began. That summer, one charged me when I rounded a corner and got too close. I…

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Aridification vs. Drought

Sarah Boon Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
The Colorado River Basin has experienced high drought levels for the past 20 years. This year’s seasonal drought monitor is no exception – it shows the Colorado Basin as being under an “exceptional” drought, which affects Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. US Drought Monitor, 24 January 2021. See more here. The Colorado Basin is drying significantly, leading to dry alpine tundra and high-elevation forests, and causing more, bigger wildfires. Reservoirs are sinking to…

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No going back

Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences
At last, 2021 is fully underway. There’s a Covid vaccine. The president of the US is not deranged. Brexit is essentially over. We can go back to normal now, right? Soon anyway… after the summer… right?No.There is no ‘back’ on this thing, only forward. Even if there was a back, there is no ‘normal’. So, as comforting as they are, I try to avoid ideas like ‘recovery’, or ‘getting back to normal’. Instead, I look…

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Online Metabarcoding Course – March 1 to 28, 2021

Dirk Steinke Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
A reminder that this course will start in a little over a month. The deadline for Early bird registration is January 31st to receive a discount. I have updated course content to include the newest HTS technology and methods such as metagenomics and transcriptomics. Throughout the course, we will explore:High throughput sequencingMetabarcoding/MetagenomicsMetabarcoding analyticsRecent applicationsThe course consists of a series of online lectures, research exercises, and group discussions where you have a chance to review the state of current technology,…

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