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Category Archives: Field work
Did you forget about books?
Did you forget about natural history, the story of the earth and its inhabitants in all their particulars? Yes, particulars, for it is in the details that the most wondrous stories lurk. Have you learned the specifics of even a … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral ecology, Field work
Tagged Arthur Cleveland Bent, Biology, books, field biology, natural history, Smithsonian Institution, Texas
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Was it a poisonous snake?
We stared at the impenetrable bluff above the Missouri Vistor’s Center on I270. I told undergraduates Emily, Ben, and Lucy to space themselves along the bluff and penetrate it, collecting four soil samples on the way up, at least 20 … Continue reading
Posted in Field work
Tagged Agriculture, Columbia Bottom, Dictyostelium discoideum, field work, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, samples, Snake, Soil, St. Louis Missouri, teaching, undergraduates
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