Over a decade ago, I sat at a table in a dimly lit room with five ecologists talking about the restoration and use of degraded lands. One of them, a tropical ecologist who secretly harbored a fondness for birds and a penchant for the fiddle, blurted out, “What about...
Introduction One of the major challenges of university science education is to increase the quality of the undergraduate educational experience. Undergraduate classes in basic sciences such as biology have relied for several centuries on a traditional model of passive...
“Like most women she wished to exaggerate the significance of small deaths.” – Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger’s Daughter (2007) My naturalist tendencies, born in a desert of Joshua trees, asserted themselves more fully when I was twenty years old and studying...