Articles in the Category: Ecology
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster
A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Engineering, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 05 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments

BP Starts Top Kill Procedure to Stop Oil Leak

BP Starts Top Kill Procedure to Stop Oil Leak
After over a month of spewing millions of gallons of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has begun it’s “top kill” approach which requires jamming mud into the hole created on April 20. The trick is that the pressure of the mud being pushed into the pipe to stem the oil flow must...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Ecology, Global Warming, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Teachers off to Antarctica

Science Teachers off to Antarctica
Gary Wesche is counting the days. It’s down to 14 now before he heads to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition. KMBC’s Bev Chapman reports from St. Regis Catholic School in Kansas City. Wesche’s expedition to study ice sheets is organized by PolarTREC where you can follow Gary’s...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Plants, SciClips on 10 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Open Data Opens Doors for Citizen Scientists

Open Data Opens Doors for Citizen Scientists
Members of the Surui tribe in Brazil test Open Data Kit, photo courtesy of Carl Hartung, UW Cell phones are coming to the aid of international health workers, environmental monitors and even citizen scientists. Now loaded with a data collection tool, Open Data Kit is the brainchild of some doctoral students...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Backyard Science, Books, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Wind on 10 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle. Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Global Warming, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest
A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold. But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid. What can we...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Global Warming, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Arctic Tipping Point on the Horizon

Arctic Tipping Point on the Horizon
Evidence of global warming is hitting the Arctic harder than anywhere else. The rate of climate change is twice that of the rest of the world. And, now scientists are discovering the Arctic region plays an important role in capturing atmospheric carbon, both in the ocean and on land. But that delicate...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Ecology, Environment, SciClips on 09 15th, 2008 | No Comments

Leading Role in Biodiversity

Leading Role in Biodiversity
Parasitic wasp and aphid, courtesy of WSU There is a lot of buzz about biodiversity these days. But new wasp research is showing it’s not just the number of species present that indicates a healthy system. But there also must be diversity in what each species can do. Washington State University...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Ecology, Environment, SciClips on 09 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Forest Storage

Forest Storage
Boreal Forest in Yukon Territory, photo by Michael C. Bradbury Among all the options to help tame carbon dioxide emissions, few people can see the forest for the trees. But a team of ecologists at Ohio State University is quantifying how much carbon can be stored in North American forests. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_1108', {src:...
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