Backyard Biodiversity – I
Check out this Feralia deceptiva moth I found in the yard recently. While stuck around the house during the Covid-19 pandemic there is always the opportunity to learn more about what things live...
Category: Conservation – Biodiversity
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
The UO Media Center for Science & Technology
The University of Oregon has a new center in the School of Journalism and Communication. It’s called the Media Center for Science and Technology. The goal of the center is to train journalists, communicators,...
Planting Trees with Eugene Parks, AmeriCorps, Friends of Trees and UO Holden Leadership
Active Learning is the best way to learn. In January, on Martin Luther King Day, a large contingent of Eugene, Oregon community members, including students from the University of Oregon, got the chance to...
Creative Commons and Conservation
This last month was a good month for my photography. I have a fairly extensive collection of images on the Flickr website under the moniker “Wolfram Burner,” and a large fraction of those are...
Arborists and Tree Diseases – Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW-ISA)
Fungal Pathogens This last week the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW-ISA) had its conference here in Eugene. It is always exciting to see what groups come to our area. ...
Close Contact of the Marine Kind – Our Invertebrate World
Along with all of my recent visits to the coast, Associate Library Dean, Nancy Cunningham, and I took a trip to the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. The Hatfield Center is part...
Coastal Lichens
I have been on the coast a lot this summer. This last weekend I led a lichen workshop at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. The campus is a wonderful place to review the...
Zoos, Koalas, Rhinos, and More
San Diego is home to one of the best zoos in the world and I just had my first visit to it. Now, as a student growing up in Washington, D.C. I spent many...
National Parks as Conservation Entities – Joshua Tree NP
Visiting a national park is such a wonderful learning activity and a chance to learn about species/habitat refugia. Recently I had the chance to travel to Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Not...