Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sylvia Earle - if you dont know who she is....you should:)
Why you should listen to her:
Sylvia Earle, called "Her Deepness" by the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress and "Hero for the Planet" by Time, is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration.
Earle's work has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. As captain of the first all-female team to live underwater, she and her fellow scientists received a ticker-tape parade and White House reception upon their return to the surface. In 1979, Sylvia Earle walked untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other woman before or since. In the 1980s she started the companies Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technologies with engineer Graham Hawkes to design and build undersea vehicles that allow scientists to work at previously inaccessible depths. In the early 1990s, Dr. Earle served as Chief Scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. At present she is explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society.
Sylvia Earle is a dedicated advocate for the world's oceans and the creatures that live in them. Her voice speaks with wonder and amazement at the glory of the oceans and with urgency to awaken the public from its ignorance about the role the oceans plays in all of our lives and the importance of maintaining their health.
"We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us."
Sylvia Earle
Friday, October 14, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Arthropod Story
The Arthropod Story (this site contains additional info on the Cambrian and the evolution of Arthropods)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Getting webby with the food web lab......Volunteers!
Check out: http://ecocomplexity.blogspot.com/
Email: tromanuk@gmail.com (150-300 words about your interests and why you would like to volunteer). Please email your interest statement by this Friday (September 24th). Volunteers are required to devote 5+ hours a week. Interviews will be set for next week. Thanks for all the interest you guys have shown! Dr. T
Email: tromanuk@gmail.com (150-300 words about your interests and why you would like to volunteer). Please email your interest statement by this Friday (September 24th). Volunteers are required to devote 5+ hours a week. Interviews will be set for next week. Thanks for all the interest you guys have shown! Dr. T
Monday, September 19, 2011
Placozoans and Poriferans
Our first "whose who" in the metazoan phylogeny lecture is on Placozoans and Poriferans.
Check out the following sites because animals that have probably existed for about 800 million years are just pretty darn interesting....
British Columbia's Glass Sponge Reefs
Sponge phylogeny, taxonomy, fossils
Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis
Sponges in the news:
Voracious Sponges In Underwater Caves Save Reefs
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Lecture 3: Video -- Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting is one of the greatest nature photographers of our time. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Audubon and Time, as well as numerous award-winning books. Lanting's recent exhibition, The LIFE Project, offers a lyrical interpretation of the history of life on Earth.
http://www.ted.com/speakers/frans_lanting.html
http://www.lifethroughtime.com/
http://www.ted.com/speakers/frans_lanting.html
http://www.lifethroughtime.com/
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Focus on 'Hotspots'
What are Hotspots? Why are they important? Check out the following links to learn about how protecting small fractions of the worlds land and ocean environments can help to preserve diversity
Wikipedia "Biological Hotspots"
Conservation International "Focus on Hotspots"
Wikipedia "Biological Hotspots"
Conservation International "Focus on Hotspots"
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Welcome to 2003 in 2011!
I would like to welcome you all back to a new school year and to Diversity I. The class blog is an extension of the lectures for my (Dr. T's) "invertebrate" lectures and this is where I will provide additional links to important and interesting facts about invertebrates, provide links to the videos shown in class, and upload enrichment and further reading material for those of you that would like to delve deeper into certain subjects. I am really excited about getting to know you all and teaching this class this year!
Dr. T (Tamara Romanuk) and a Japanese Macaque snow monkey (Macaca fuscata)that I hung out with on a recent trip to Japan. Check out the snow monkey food-web!
Dr. T (Tamara Romanuk) and a Japanese Macaque snow monkey (Macaca fuscata)that I hung out with on a recent trip to Japan. Check out the snow monkey food-web!
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