So I feel obliged to pay tribute to yet another organization Doing the Green Work (hey, did I just coin that? If so, I call dibs on that phrase) – the Honors Council Environmental Committee (HCEC) at the University of Connecticut. Again, this all started with an idea, but more specifically it was about a problem on
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What exactly do you suppose would happen? (Let’s find out)

After a brief period of technical difficulties, I am back in action! My last few blog posts were on the subject of biodiversity, but now I’m going to turn to something new and even more exciting…. climate change. I’ve been taking a class in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department at my university on climate models, and
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Hello, folks, and sorry for the lull in posts. I’m going to take off my biologist hat for a while, and put on my conservation hat for a while. I’ve told you a lot about my research on Pelargonium, but that’s actually only one of two theses I’m working on – the other is on
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Here’s a few tips for how to put more green in the holiday red-and-green this year.

One fish, two fish, red fish…449 other fish!

New research says acidification is bad news for corals.

“Biodiversity” is a term that’s somewhat hard to define…if you break it down, “bio” = life and “diversity” = variety. So “biodiversity” is basically just the variety of life, right? Well, yes, but it’s often not so simple to measure that variety. I’ll give you an example. I’m part of a research project studying a genus of
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Indonesia struggles with volcanic eruption and a tsunami; what a week!

“Red sludge” from alumina refinery floods Hungarian towns, causing major concerns for human health and the environment.