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  • 15 Awesome Interactive Virtual Field Trips
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Discover Magazine and SciStarter announce new citizen science partnership | SciStarter ... - 0 views

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  • DISCOVER is teaming up with SciStarter.com to present Your Research Mission, a dynamic project showcase. Each week, it will feature curated citizen science tasks, ranging from analyzing distant galaxies to monitoring frog, firefly and whale populations, to detecting home and body microbiomes. The projects will make it simple for everyone to jump in and get their hands dirty with science.
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  • Grant Size: up to $7,500 Application deadline: November 15
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Elvers fetching more than $2,000 per pound - Hancock - Bangor Daily News - BDN Maine - 0 views

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  • At noon Thursday, when Maine’s spring elver season officially opened,
  • the end of the elver season on May 31
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Is Silence Going Extinct? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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environment soundscapes pollution

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  • since 2006, when scientists at Denali began a decade-long effort to collect a month’s worth of acoustic data from more than 60 sites across the park — including a 14,000-foot-high spot on Mount McKinley — Betchkal and his colleagues have recorded only 36 complete days in which the sounds of an internal combustion engine of some sort were absent.
  • To restore ecosystems to acoustic health, researchers must determine, to the last raindrop, what compositions nature would play without us.
  • Noise can mask mating calls, cause stress and prevent animals from hearing alarms, the stirrings of prey and other useful survival cues. And as climate change prompts a shift in creatures’ migration schedules, circadian rhythms and preferred habitats — reshuffling the where and when of their calls — soundscapes are altered, too.
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  • perhaps the greatest appeal of soundscape ecology is the way it intersects other fields of study. “It’s almost like going back to old-school naturalism,” Betchkal said, “where you paid attention to anything and everything that was fascinating. That’s totally what I’m into — interdisciplinary science.”
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  • Mobilize Eastern Maine is a regional organization committed to a collaborative, bottom-up approach to community and economic development designed to help our region grow and prosper.
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Ticks to the Slaughter - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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deer ticks lyme disease permethrin

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  • Researchers from Cornell University installed and monitored dozens of “four-poster” feeding stations, which lure deer to a bin baited with corn and rigged with rollers soaked with a tick-killing pesticide, permethrin. When a deer rubs against the rollers, ticks die by the thousands. One station can treat all the deer in about 100 acres
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The Wisdom of Slime - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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slime mold evolution math Interstate

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  • the slime mold was designed by evolution to solve just one problem: how to build an optimal transport network (for its nutrients). So we decided to investigate how the slime mold, when presented with the task of connecting the major urban areas of the United States, would design a transport system. Would its design resemble that of the United States highway system, or would the slime mold propose a superior one?
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Study Sheds Light on How Pigeons Navigate by Magnetic Field - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A well-known and often-mentioned study of London taxi drivers showed that experienced drivers with a mental map of London had a hippocampus larger in one area than people without their experience. In some birds that hide seeds and return later to their caches with astonishing accuracy, the hippocampus grows and shrinks seasonally, presumably as they map their hiding spots.
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