tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1432623434870487832024-03-13T11:18:12.750-07:00CO-EVOLUTION: Art + Biology in the MuseumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-25400463594627434672012-05-15T11:55:00.001-07:002012-05-15T11:57:54.228-07:00Sketches from Wkshp #3: Morphology and Evolution with Brian Conley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8poRhvsAzYA/T7KlpPNOhkI/AAAAAAAAASs/Kcc5iYel3rc/s1600/IMG_0968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8poRhvsAzYA/T7KlpPNOhkI/AAAAAAAAASs/Kcc5iYel3rc/s320/IMG_0968.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julia Anderson</div><br />
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A fellow art student posted this on Facebook, and I thought I would share. It is a visual map of wind movement and speed in the U.S. in real time. It is mesmerizing. Here's the url: http://hint.fm/wind/ <br />
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MarneMarne Elmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03716335887050216341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-34608735664714555672012-04-26T12:59:00.002-07:002012-04-26T13:00:46.218-07:00CO-EV Workshop #3: Morphology and Evolution with Brian Conley<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian Conley is at UNM this weekend, here to lead our third and final CO-EVOLUTION Workshop! We will be discussing themes of emergence and complexity in various systems--physical, biological, and chemical. On DAY 1, Luis Bettencourt (Santa Fe Institute) and Felisa Smith (UNM Bio) will join us in a discussion of finding patterns in complex living and non-living systems. We'll be delving into the collections to make our own observations about patterns. On DAY 2, we'll continue our museum investigation, and students will present their findings to the group. In the afternoon, we'll break into a Research Lab/Think Tank on the possibilities of artmaking based on these findings. We will be joined by a group of faculty and students from various disciplines, creating the possibility for generative dialogue. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-907134669108533972012-04-02T19:23:00.008-07:002012-04-03T20:01:36.336-07:00CO-EV workshop #2: Fluid Taxonomy with Suzanne Anker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is taxonomy? How does the field of genetic engineering </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reorganize and recombine genomes? What are chimeras in art and science? This workshop will explore the following species of mushrooms: portobello, shitake, enoki, oyster, and white beech by DNA extraction and PCR amplification. The second part of the workshop will concentrate on "cut and paste" techniques in visual art through the practice of collage. Students are asked to choose content based on the following criteria: What are the political consequences of genetic engineering? To what taxa do entities belong when they are the result of several genomes? What ethical issues are raised by industrial farming?</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...Brandon is able to include the community is through his volunteer research expeditions. In this way, members of the community or interested artists are able to receive a firsthand look at the work behind scientific research and scientific papers. While scientific papers tend to be dense and difficult to comprehend, this allows a behind-the-scenes look at the research and perhaps offers a more understandable viewpoint... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...One can see how the photographs of the limbless, and extra-limbed frogs first intrigued him. Those images alone give way to wild thoughts and theories, and just sheer curious terror. Working with him in the field and the lab really gave expression to how much he knows his subject; not just his primary focus but of the many other environmental factors that effect his subject. The fact that his knowledge is first hand makes a huge difference... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...As he flipped through the slides and showed both his excursions with locals to ponds and rivers, and his night gatherings around glowing works it became obvious that the distribution of both science and art to the public in an accessible way was his primary accomplishment. These expeditions and events are reminiscent of a science class that never was, a form of experiential learning the breaks the text book model and creates engagement in the learning process. The teachings of these events go beyond the sciences and arts and explore social concerns by reflecting the results of development in the area through its effects on the wildlife... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–RR (UNM Art, MFA student)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...I was most inspired by the level of inquiry generated through research-oriented endeavors. This is something I think art tends to loose focus on. The initial impetus of inquiry that inspires a project can fade. Ballengée’s lecture and workshop proved to me the invaluable action of continually asking questions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Museum collections, which can be massive in size and breadth, are under-utilized unless for very particular, specialized purposes. The accessibility to museum collections is naturally limited, however, Ballengée demonstrated the potential use of collections, especially in conjunction with field-based inquiry. The connection between collection and database information and field-based research is integral to learning. . . I have an enlightened understanding of the importance and relevance of looking and observing morphology and geographic variation. In my misunderstanding, science seemed to exist as confirmed knowledge from the past. I neglected the value of present research and inquiry... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detailed drawing of the human cortex taken from Ramón y Cajal's Comparative study of the sensory areas of the human cortex. Top: Nissl-stained motor cortex of a human adult. Bottom: Golgi-stained cortex of a 1.5-month-old infant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">read the full story at The Scientist : <a href="http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/23/nervy-production/">http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/23/nervy-production/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-28690115587504085042012-02-26T20:10:00.008-08:002012-04-02T19:39:55.502-07:00Check out photos from Workshop 1 with Brandon Ballengée:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DAY 1_in the lab, studying museum specimens: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shovelready/sets/72157629728212915/" target="_blank">more photos here...</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-51426097876085421902012-02-17T11:02:00.000-08:002012-02-17T18:32:54.137-08:00Workshop 1: "Cataloguing Wonder" with Brandon Ballengée<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We kick off our CO-EVOLUTION workshop series with artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée this coming Friday, 2/24! On Day 1, we'll dive into the Amphibian collection at the Museum of Southwestern Biology to perform a Gosner staging, make drawings and photographs, and to discuss the occurrence of deformities in preserved tadpoles. On Day 2, we'll take a field trip to collect specimens to compare them with what we've learned. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brandon will be giving a public lecture entitled “Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature” on Friday, February 24th at 5pm at UNM SMLC. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-31656367952468183302012-02-17T10:55:00.000-08:002012-02-17T10:55:57.628-08:002/20-2/22 AIM-UP RCN meeting in Fairbanks, AKThis week we'll be convening with biologists, educators, museum curators, and artists to discuss new approaches to undergraduate education in the sciences and the arts. Stay tuned!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-8248999643609272832012-02-13T19:55:00.000-08:002012-02-13T19:55:52.917-08:00Our speaker this week: Miriam Langer from Media Arts at NM Highlands<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Abstract: The exhibit <i>Emergence: A New View of Life’s Origin</i> is a collaborative project involving scientists, students, and museum professionals, and a case study for using a new way of understanding our world, Complexity Science, as the framework for exploring the origin of life and biological processes and also for using new technologies to incorporate ongoing research into exhibits. Two aspects of ongoing research, topicality and uncertainty, make exhibits more exciting, especially when controversy is involved. This new approach will educate public audiences about the importance of basic research and museum collections, and interest students in science and science careers. To adopt this new approach, museums need to develop partnerships with outside researchers; identify practical and affordable technological solutions; and adapt to new roles and an ongoing commitment. </span><style>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece</i> and <i>Hiroshi Sugimoto</i>:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/exhibitions_current.html" target="_blank">http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/exhibitions_current.html</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first show includes a large selection of botanical photographs, including one by Karl Blossfeldt. Great timing!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-77828657680331854712012-02-04T21:09:00.000-08:002012-02-04T21:28:39.569-08:00Karl Blossfeldt: The New Objectivity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3VJ6U_2H9WQ/Ty4MQ4IoKxI/AAAAAAAAAFs/-VP6DlR9ZRo/s1600/il_fullxfull.126204764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3VJ6U_2H9WQ/Ty4MQ4IoKxI/AAAAAAAAAFs/-VP6DlR9ZRo/s320/il_fullxfull.126204764.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German artist and teacher who immersed himself in plant morphology by photographing nothing but plants for 35 years. He devised a self-made system to shoot close-up photographs of flowers, buds, seed pods, tendrils, and more--in order to study their form and design in detail. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His photographs were originally seen as teaching material and only later presented as autonomous art works.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <i>Urformen der Kunst</i> (Art forms in Nature) was published in 1928. More can be seen here: <a href="http://www.karl-blossfeldt-archiv.de/" target="_blank">http://www.karl-blossfeldt-archiv.de/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-51520963271446299602012-02-03T20:58:00.001-08:002012-02-03T20:58:40.473-08:00from UA Fairbanks<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dear Eileen and others,</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sounds great. I am excited to see a module that combines morphology</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">and avian songs. That should be interesting from a study point of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">view, but I can also see good potential for incorporating this into</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">various undergraduate courses. On our end we have a paleontologist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">taking the class, and he studies dinosaurs, so we had to think a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">little bit creatively to come up with a project that would included</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">all of us and our expertise, so we are going to use coal ball peels</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">from the Pennsylvanian and kits that I have received from a colleague</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">in Ohio, to prepare acetate peels (which are in essence very exquisite</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">sections of these ancient rocks showing anatomical detail of plants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">from that epoch) and scan those in and have them accessioned through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">the Earth Science department and than use herbarium specimens and make</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">sections of some of the stems of the modern equivalent to some of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">these ferns and horsetails and have them also available in Arctos and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">the module will evolve around morphologies past and present of plants.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> We are still working out most of the details, but this is the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">approach we have planned for our module.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I am working on my talk for Tuesday and will try to connect the labtop</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">to the system so that we can project the slides that way. I am keeping</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">my fingers crossed that this will work. Overall the connection seems</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">to work fine now, I think.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cheers, Steffi.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">P.S.: Light snow, tropical temps: +5F for a high today!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-67414524536530875162012-02-03T16:06:00.001-08:002012-02-03T16:06:54.733-08:00from UC Berkeley<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">I think the technology for the seminar is closer to under control at our end. Last Tuesday happened to be the day that Jim Mcguire's new phylogenetics cluster of computers went down, so our IT person was having a rough day. In the end, I think things worked out and my group was pretty intrigued by the art work that was displayed.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">The 3 students taking the seminar through Berkeley very much want to do a module on geographic variation in avian song and plumage traits. They had already discussed this before the class started meeting and seem really into it, so I hate to dissuade them, even though I had been hoping to develop more of a climate change theme from this end. The students have already been looking at specimens to get a sense of the plumage variation and checking our digital song recordings, so they seem to be pretty in to it, which is good!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Anyway, I wanted to update you on the emerging themes from this end. I'm guessing that some of the UNM students may incorporate genetics, which would be good in terms of having a diverse set of modules and of course having some plant ideas from UAF would move us away from verts a bit.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Best,</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Eileen </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-24346329173640961642012-02-01T08:12:00.000-08:002012-02-06T09:40:17.021-08:00The Extinction of Natural History: from the Chronicle of Higher Education<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">By DAVID S. WILCOVE and THOMAS EISNER<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Imagine you are a naturalist with a liking for insects. You are interested in how insects make a living, in how they are fit for survival. You marvel at how protected they are as adults, when they are able to fly. And you think of how helpless they are as eggs and pupae, when they are stuck in place, unable to take evasive action. True, pupae are sometimes enclosed in protective cocoons, or hidden in dugouts in the soil, but some live out in the open, where they are exposed to a world of predators. How, for instance, do the pupae of ladybird beetles (family Coccinellidae) manage to survive? They are typically affixed to stems or leaves, where one would imagine they don't stand a chance against ants. Might they have special weaponry? You look closely and find that they do. They have what are essentially biting devices, in the form of clefts along the backs of their abdomens that they can open and close and use to snap at ants that come too close.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As a naturalist with a Darwinian bent, you wonder whether such snapping devices are present in every ladybird-beetle pupa or whether, in the best evolutionary tradition, different ladybird species have come to possess variants of this defense. You look at different species and find that, yes indeed, the beetles of one genus, Epilachna, which includes among others the Mexican bean beetle and the squash beetle, have evolved a remarkable alternative defense. Instead of the pinching devices, Epilachna pupae have a dense covering of tiny glandular hairs, the secretion of which forms a potent deterrent to ants.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You get in touch with chemists, whom you provide with a sample of the secretion, and in due course you find out that you have stumbled upon a unique group of chemicals. The substances include some fascinating new ring structures of enormous size -- so novel, in fact, that the paper you eventually write on the secretion with your colleague chemists attracts wide attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The discovery may look serendipitous, but it was not. It was driven by rational inference from pure, old-fashioned natural history, the close observation of organisms -- their origins, their evolution, their behavior, and their relationships with other species. That kind of close, scrupulous observation of nature has a long and illustrious history, but it is now sliding into oblivion. <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37509487/wilcox%26eisner.pdf" target="_blank">READ MORE....</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-53069933931389678922012-02-01T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-01T08:17:20.633-08:00Visiting Artist: Brandon Ballengée<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jCC7FbCnmuI/TylldhQt1fI/AAAAAAAAAFk/ECkJTGknstE/s1600/pigeons01_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jCC7FbCnmuI/TylldhQt1fI/AAAAAAAAAFk/ECkJTGknstE/s1600/pigeons01_small.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are interested in reading more about Brandon Ballengée, who will be visiting UNM on Feb 24-25, check out these links:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://www.brandonballengee.com/" target="_blank">www.brandonballengee.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2011/12 National Audubon Society TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.togethergreen.org/fellows/fellowdetails.aspx?fellowid=163" target="_blank">http://www.togethergreen.org/fellows/fellowdetails.aspx?fellowid=163</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2010/12 Visiting Scientist, Redpath Museum, McGill University</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/redpath" target="_blank">www.mcgill.ca/redpath</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143262343487048783.post-37959816745396104472012-01-27T04:29:00.000-08:002012-01-27T04:30:06.120-08:00Also read this<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://strangebehaviors.wordpress.com/category/biodiversity/" target="_blank">On the Library of Life</a>...reminds me of what Joe said on our museum tour about the collection as a library in which each species is a book whose story hasn't yet been written.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0