Field Biologists as the First and Ultimate (Eco) Tourists: Selva Lacandona and BeyondBiologists constantly attempt to distance themselves from tourists. Some biologists may accept to support an eco-tourist project as a component of a conservation program, but the majority complain about the negative effect of tourists, and all of them are loudly reluctant to share places with tourists. The fact that they ...
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Over Troubled Waters: The Fate of California is in Your HandsA video showing followed by discussion. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley, Jr. narrates the story of the battle being fought by the people of the Delta ...
Elinor Gates is a staff astronomer at Lick Observatory specializing in laser guide star adaptive optics and near infrared camera instrumentation and observations. Her current research interests are studying quasars and their host galaxies. She received her Ph.D. in Physics/Astronomy from the University of New Mexico in 1998. Prior to ...
