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For this weeks topic we are discussing Science and Ecology and your online task for this week is post a summary of an on-going Scientific study on an ecological topic of your choice. Make sure to post the link of where you found your info. Have a great week!
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Prof. Dillman
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One ongoing Scientific study is on global warming. This issue has been studied for years. It is proven that global warming is induced by humans. Some people even believe it is the biggest threat to our environment. Global Warming even makes it hard for some ecosystems to adapt naturally. The biggest things you can do to prevent global warming is to reduce, reuse, and recycle!
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Heather Parker
Diseases in Wildlife
ReplyDeleteSometimes humans come into contact with wild animals who have infectious diseases. By not studying the egological effect that the diseases have on humans, it can cause a dramatic decrease in our own population. For example, there is Giardia Infection, which is a parasite associated with animals and their environment, including water. Also, There is a disease called Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis, which is a viral disease from rodents/house mice. Investigating the causes of these can help humans be aware when exploring though nature.
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/animals/wildlife.htm
Kathryn Trumble
3rd Period
Kayla Ramsey
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At Yosemite National Park, there is an ongoing scientific research due to declining animal species studies,invasive plant removal strategies, and human carrying capacity issues. The park serves as a public meeting place for scientific topics to include fire science, hydroclimatology, archeology, and bird surveys. This park is an ongoing scientific study because of the sustainability of the resources found in the park.
Kayla Ramsey
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Link to my summary: http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/research-and-studies.htm
Ecological Topic: Bird Conservation
ReplyDeleteOrnithologists and many non government organizations and non profit organizations study the number of species, the amount of birds and how birds act in a certain area. Birds are very easy to study and lead to further discoveries in nature. Birds indicate the overall health of an environment. They also study bird eggs and the breeding habitats to keep an eye on the bird populations.
http://www.birds.com/education/research-studies/
Mallory Mitchell
4th period
Growing Artificial Meat in Labs to End Hunger
ReplyDeleteA developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, 56, is involved in bioengineering cultured meat. He believes this product will eventually help solve the global food crisis. The only problems he faces are funding and whether or not the product will be socially acceptable based on the fact that it is produced in a lab. It will be called "charlem" for Charleston engineered meat.
The process:"Dr. Mironov has taken myoblasts -- embryonic cells that develop into muscle tissue -- from turkey and bathed them in a nutrient bath of bovine serum on a scaffold made of chitosan (a common polymer found in nature) to grow animal skeletal muscle tissue."
Cultured meat could eventually become cheaper than producing meat traditionally, on farms. Scientists claim cultured meat could also have future benefits. For example, if we have and interplanetary exploration, we would need meat in space, and you simply cannot take a cow to space with you.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/31/growing-meat-labs-end-hunger/
http://www.epa.gov/ecology/
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the study of finding an effective way of supporting cars through electricity and gasoline are still in discussion for multiple reasons of cost, carbon emission, and that our time isn't ready for electric mobilrs
ReplyDeletehttp://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1055241_oil-exec-says-electric-car-batteries-not-ready-for-primetime
Andrew Collins, 3rd
Because I couldn't find one that was ongoing, I found two recently-published studies.
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Summary: This study was looking at the bones of birds. According to palentology, they had three digits (labeled 1, 2, and 3). However, they decided, based on embryonic research, that they were to be labeled 2, 3, and 4.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es103302t
This study is trying to use paper with silver nanoparticles to purify drinking water in a cheap and easy manner.
Yosemite National Park has an on-going study in the national park about the decline of certain species in specific regions of the park. With over 100 employees designated to this cause the park has concluded that certain plant in the park prohibit the inhabitants of small insects. Ants are one of the major insects that live in only two of the five regions of the park due to the population of certain plants. The parks scientist say that the information they are discovering is helping the growth of many other forest around the country.
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Parker Hambright
4th Period
Luanda: lack of diversification of marine life
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John Bynum
3rd
Tomas Carlo and Jason Gleditsch studied how invasive fruiting plants affect ecosystems. Their goal is to return an area to its original state by using non native plants. For their experiment, they sectioned off an area called Happy Valley region in central Pennsylvania. In this area, there is a abundance of honeysuckle, a fruiting plant that is invasive. They found that the honeysuckle and bird communities have formed a symbiotic relationship.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sify.com/news/invasive-plants-can-be-good-for-eco-change-news-international-lcnpuggecfd.html
Justin Fung
3rd Period
Rebecca Manning
ReplyDeleteAssessing the Status of Marine Reserves in South Asia
PI: Patrick Christie, Associate Professor.Sponsor: UN Food and Agriculture Organization
.Award: $66,335.00.Duration: September – December, 2010.This study will document the status of marine protected areas in the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem area which stretches from the Maldives to western Indonesia. The study will inform the development of a significant international MPA network.
http://depts.washington.edu/smea/research/ecological-scientific-studies
Doug Collins Per.3
ReplyDeleteAerojet-General Corporation facility in Rancho Cordova contaminated the city's water supply with perchlorate. When consumed it can supress thyroid hormones which are needed for proper development in infants. This started the Maternal Exposure to Perchlorate in Drinking Water and Newborn Thyroid Function.
http://www.ehib.org/project.jsp?project_key=AERO03
scientists are using fluorescent green proteins as markers to track cells and follow the genes passed
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Robert Boone
3rd period Apes
Scientists have discovered that human-introduced, invasive species of plants can have positive ecological effects on the ecological community.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110211095555.htm
Taylor Springs 4th period
ELizabeth Neal (APES Period 3)
ReplyDeleteThis past week one of the concepts we studied was that of extinction. I came across this article that addresses the issue of the endangered fossa cat, the largest carnivore on the island of Madagascar. The thing that caught my attention is that this animal will soon be extinct due to the increasing loss of their habitat yet they have not been listed as an endangered species. A large question concerning the fossa cat is whether there will be anymore of them by the end of this year. These cats play an important role in their environment by contributing to population control but if they are extinct, madagascar will see a definite increase in the populations of the organisms of lower trophic levels.
http://ecological-problems.blogspot.com/search/label/endangered%20animals
Bird conservation has been a national priority in the United States since the early 1900s, when scientific evidence showed that humans could negatively impact the long-term sustainability of bird populations. Recent findings indicate that a third of North America's bird populations declined during the last half of the 20th century, so there is clearly a continued need for bird conservation at local, state, regional, national and continental scales.
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Weston Gommer 4th period
Countries like the UK are overusing the roses that are found in Kenya. These roses cannot be replenished quick enough and this lead to a failing water system.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110211082928.htm
The ecological study I chose to discuss was one dealing with barred owls. These owls were the subject of a series of studies run by graduate students from UNC-Charlotte. The first student who began the study looked at habitat characteristics, home range, and prey habits of barred owls. He found that males use a much larger home range than females. The next graduate student studies reproductive success rates between country and suburban birds, but did not find a statistically significant difference. A third student compared the diets of country owls to those of suburban owls. He found that country owls eat more insects and small amphibians, while city owls consume a large quanity of birds.
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Billy Harris
4th period AP Earth
In the Late Ordovician mass extinction, more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly what caused this tremendous loss in biodiversity remains a mystery, but now a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered new details supporting the idea that the mass extinction was linked to a cooling climate
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Tenay Williams
3rd Period
There are many different ongoing researches going on at Yosemite Park, like the decline of animal species studies, to invasive plant removal strategies, and to human carrying capacity issues. This park focuses on resource management and science functions within the division of resource management and science. It has an organizational structure that combines resource managers with scientists to create an environment where science is used directly in decision-making, thereby addressing the concerns of various groups that have criticized the National Park Service.
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Kimberly Campos
3rd period
Satellites are being used to watch vegetation growth that boosts the population of mice that carry diseases.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newswise.com/articles/monitoring-killer-mice-from-space
Sarah Kwasnik 3rd Period
Carly Legg
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The ongoing ecological study I chose was a study that is trying to see the impact of farmer's seed management on biodiversity in an ecosystem. The purpose of the study is to understand the effects of individual and collective strategies on entire environments. It applies onto three species : pearl millet, sorghum and quinoa and two geographical locations, Mali and Chili.
https://sites.google.com/site/plantbiodiversityadaptation/projects-and-collaborations
Scientists are studying certain Jellyfish populations in order to measure the environmental effects that humans are having on the oceans. Due to the stages of development that Jellyfish have, they are a good indicator of ocean water quality. Most notably however, is that nonnative Jellyfish species are starting to bloom in certain areas.
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3rd Period
Right now at University of Washington,
ReplyDeleteInternational Adoption of Conservation Technologies (IntACT)is exploring the key factors related to successful cross-cultural promotion of marine conservation technologies by investigating the case studies of the international promotion of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) and circle hooks, which are both used to reduce bycatch of sea turtles. Research will be conducted in Ecuador and Costa Rica.
http://depts.washington.edu/smea/research/ecological-scientific-studies
The study at University of Washington was posted by Spencer Goodson, 3rd period.
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Forests, especially rainforests are together with oceans our main allies against climate change because they absorb large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere. Therefore, world must do everything that's necessary to stop deforestation of rainforests, especially Amazon rainforest because if we lose our rainforests climate change impact will be much stronger, and temperatures will rise much faster.
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Thomas Hart
3rd Period
Carly Legg
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The ongoing geological study I chose was:
The geological survey of Canada's integrated research and monitoring area (IRMA) projects- a contribution to Canadian global change.
This project provides the opportunity to build on extensive scientific databases developed during 150 years of research in Canada.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w68g340hhm52346k/
Parasitological study of some frugivorous bird species, whose conservation this research project also aims to, will be undertaken in this part of the work. Except for Hari, no published work is available in the case of avian parasites of Bangladesh. Parasite fauna of even closely related host species exhibit high degree of individuality. No two species of a single genus, of a helminth, generally occur in one habitat, host intestine. However, when they do they obviously utilize different niche conditions and resources. This demonstrates uniqueness of the microenvironment, which together with macro-environmental aspects make important problem of parasite biology and ecology to study. This parasitological work will give a new dimension to the biological and ecological study of the bird species, which seem, presently, to need conservation support.
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Matt Monroe
4th period
On Isle Royale, an island of the Great Lakes, scientists have been studying the predator-prey relationship of the wolves and moose who inhabit the island.
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Tia Renzulli
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Global warming is a huge impact on our environment. It is a continuous on going scientific study. There is an ongoing build up of human impacted greenhouse gases. The warnings of this issue is becoming louder and louder. Our society needs top start doing things to reduce global warming such as carpooling, turning electric appliances off, and paying attention to the products they buy at the store such as hairspray. Global warming will remain a huge controversy until our society all work together toward bettering our environment.
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm
ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2011) — Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) expand a prevalent theory regarding the development of ice ages. In the current issue of the journal Nature three physicists from AWI's working group "Dynamics of the Palaeoclimate" present new calculations on the connection between natural insolation and long-term changes in global climate activity. Up to now the presumption was that temperature fluctuations in Antarctica, which have been reconstructed for the last million years on the basis of ice cores, were triggered by the global effect of climate changes in the northern hemisphere.
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ReplyDeleteThe bird population has decreased sifnificantly since the last half of the 20th century. They're used for economic things such as zoos, and for food. Bird conservation has been increased.
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=460&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
Katelyn Kane 3rd prd
ReplyDeleteResearchers at the Cary Institute
Article published CNY Central
The use of forest biomass, under certain conditions, being used instead of fossil fuels for energy. Forests in the northeast can have an impact on the amount of liquid fossil fuels used.
http://www.cnycentral.com/weather/story.aspx?id=587861
An ongoing study today in science is a bird study. This is taking place at UCGS in Alaska. They are testing birds for the avain flu. So far they have capture about 620 birds none were diagnosed with the avain flu but were further tested for the H5N1 flu and none were diagnosed with that either. But the survalence of birds will continue on.
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Jodi Barber
Period 4