Restoration Ecology

As a new area in the Department of Art and Art History, Art and Ecology creates a signature discipline for the University of New Mexico. Building from the successful Land Arts of the American West program, Art and Ecology provides a full curriculum based on the environments and communities of the southwest. Courses are designed to further students' understanding of representation, land use, ecology, and classic Land Art in the Southwest. Art...  

Art that speaks directly about ecological issues is clear about its intent, even whilst its structures and methods of production might be decidedly un-ecological. If we shift “the ecological” onto the level of thought and attitude then we run the risk of becoming general and vague. But something about the form of the score suggests the connection with ecology each time I encounter it, on the page or in the gallery, and it is this intuitive...  

The Most Important Book of Our Time In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of ... “Galaxies gave away their ingenious ideas and told us of their private body functions. So man, too, eats, burps and excretes more worlds. How is it that invisible thoughts can lift heavy matter and build cities and...  

The planet has a fever and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century. How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific techniques known as geo-engineering, the only approach is to think big and change the planet's ecosystem before it changes us. Are we ready for these four scientific experiments on a truly global scale? More on Green Technology  

Noted lagoon ecologist Peter Baye recently gave a presentation at Shelldance nursery about how lagoons function, evolve, and respond to climate change. The talk is illuminating to anyone interested in the past and future of Sharp Park golf course. Ian...  

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The Ecology Center's latest testing of children's toys and apparel is still finding lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and other harmful chemicals in items on store shelves.For the past two years the annual toy test results have...  

Ecology was originally split into two branches: autecology (ecology of species) and synecology (ecology of species assemblages, communities, ecosystems).A great challenge is to put the two together and work at multiple temporal and spatial scales: synecology  

Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary Inspiration (1934-2009) Brian Anson passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness. Audio documentary; Stories of architecture and social struggle with Brian Anson http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37463  

(CC-licensed image by Flickr user laverrue) Gregory Glass is a disease ecologist -- he studies the relationship between pathogens and hosts. A professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Glass's laboratory is Baltimore's urban underbelly, where he hangs out with beefy sewer rats. Apparently, Baltimore is a hotbed of rat research. I wonder if Glass has encountered any Rat Kings. From Smithsonian: Glass has been following the...  

Saint Mary's professor Capriulo diesContra Costa TimesHe had been at Saint Mary's since 1997, and taught environmental science, evolution and ecology, general ecology, marine biology, marine ecology, ...In memory: Professor Gerard CapriuloSMC Collegianall 3 news articles »  

Learn more about Sharp Park lagoon ecology, the beautiful and almost extinct San Francisco Garter Snake and its primary prey species, the endangered California Red-Legged Frog. Discuss the future of Sharp Park. Sunday, November 15 at 3 p.m. Meet at...  

Here's a cute little video from Maya Research that illustrates the hugeness of our digital future: trillions of networked computers representing all scales of information and objects will make up the edgeless ecology of information that we'll be floating in. This is but a small preview of a larger project, so be sure to stay tuned.(more...)  

Sometime during this decade, a child will be born who will mark humanity's transformation into an urban species—for the first time, more people will live in cities than in rural areas of the earth. Our influence is being felt in even the most remote parts of the globe. Yet most ecologists continue to study areas relatively unaffected by human activities. The Center for Urban Restoration Ecology is the first scientific initiative in the U.S...  

Rocklin and Roseville TodaySierra Nevada Winter Ecology: Survival StrategiesRocklin and Roseville Today... trips of students and mountain enthusiasts, and served as a National Park Ranger at Devils Postpile National Monument in Mammoth Lakes, California. ...  

Ted Sturdevant named new Wash. ecology directorSeattle Post IntelligencerChris Gregoire has named Ted Sturdevant as director of the Washington state Department of Ecology. Sturdevant, who was the agency's director of governmental ...HANFORD: Governor appoints Ecology directorMid Columbia Tri City HeraldGregoire appoints Ted Sturdevant as Ecology directorThe OlympianTed Sturdevant new ecology directorSeattle Post Intelligencerall 19 news...