BioScience articles from April 2002

BioScience archives from April 2002

Greenhouse gas mitigation: The Biology of Carbon sequestration. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The world is warming up. In fact, last year was the second warmest on record, continuing a decade-long trend of rising temperatures. The extra heat is having predictable effects: Permafrost is thawing, growing seasons are lengthening, birds are...

A Lingua Franca for marine habitat classification--an idea whose time has come. (Washington Watch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Scientists spend no small effort trying to convince politicians that effective natural resource management must be based on entire ecosystems, not on single species. They have been successful--to a point. In 1992 the US Forest Service...

Lifelong learning. (Eye on Education).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Learning does not stop when the school bell rings or when a degree is complete. We continue to learn, through work and experience, by necessity and for personal interest, as long as we live. The United States is rapidly becoming a society of...

Intimate connections: Geomicrobiologists explore the interactions between biosphere and geosphere. (Features).
April 1, 2002... Microbiologist Susan Pfiffner is ready to sweat. She's outfitted in spandex workout clothes and carrying 2.5 liters of dilute Gatorade. But Pfiffner, a research assistant professor in the Center for Biomarker Analysis (CBA) at the University of...

Building better biosensors: If you think you're nervous in airports these days, you should talk to Fred Milanovich. (Features).
April 1, 2002... Milanovich is program leader for chemical and biological national security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. It's his job to envision worst-case scenarios. One of them frequently comes to mind when he's...

Insect defoliation and nitrogen cycling in forests. (Articles).
April 1, 2002... LABORATORY, PLOT, AND WATERSHED STUDIES INDICATE THAT MOST OF THE NITROGEN RELEASED FROM FOREST FOLIAGE AS A RESULT OF DEFOLIATION BY INSECTS IS REDISTRIBUTED WITHIN THE ECOSYSTEM, WHEREAS ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF NITROGEN IS LOST BY LEACHING...

Clonal fitness of attached bacteria predicted by analog modeling. (Articles).
April 1, 2002... USING A PHYSICALLY IMPLEMENTED ELECTRICAL ANALOG FOR NUTRIENT TRANSPORT, WE PREDICT THAT MAXIMAL FITNESS OF A CLONAL POPULATION OF ATTACHED BACTERIA MAY OCCUR WHEN THE POPULATION COVERS ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF THE SURFACE. Microbial...

Landscape modeling of the Mississippi Delta. (Articles).
April 1, 2002... USING A SERIES OF LANDSCAPE MODELS, WE EXAMINED THE SURVIVAL AND CREATION OF MISSISSIPPI DELTA MARSHES AND THE IMPACT OF ALTERED RIVERINE INPUTS, ACCELERATED SEA-LEVEL RISE, AND MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS ON THESE MARSHES. Deltas of large rivers...

Evaluation of a workshop series in university science education. (Education).
April 1, 2002... Most faculty take teaching seriously, and good teaching is usually required for tenure and promotion. However, most faculty members in the sciences have little or no background in the pedagogical issues of science education at the university...

Teaching evolutionary mechanisms: Genetic drift and M&M's[R]. (Education).
April 1, 2002... To promote evolution literacy, it is important to teach evolutionary principles in introductory biology classes with an "active learning" approach in which students pose and answer questions, solve problems, and discuss and explain issues (Good...

Teaching evolution: Do state standards matter? (Education).
April 1, 2002... State education standards are important because they presumably describe what students learn and produce the state's desired educational outcomes. Therefore, it is not surprising that many teachers, administrators, and others have worked bard...

One for the faithful: A review of the television series Evolution. (Books).(Review)
April 1, 2002... Evolution: A seven-part, 8-hour series, coproduced by WGBH in Boston and Clear Blue Sky Productions. For sale through the PBS Web site ($99.95 for the complete series in VHS or DVD; see www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/shop/index.html); teachers may...

Darwin's Triumph. (Books).(Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea)
April 1, 2002... Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. Carl Zimmer (introduction by Stephen J. Gould, foreword by Richard Hutton). HarperCollins, New York, 2001. 364 pages, illus. $40.00 (ISBN 0-06-0 19906-7, hardcover). In September 2001, the Public...

AIBS news.
April 1, 2002... APRIL 2002/VOLUME 52 NUMBER 4 AIBS Presents Awards at 2002 Annual Meeting At its annual meeting each March, AIBS presents a number of awards, including the Distinguished Scientist Award, Education Award, Outstanding Service Award, and...