Posts tagged “Ecology”
ESA Interviews: Jeremy Fox
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. After a lazy Sunday morning spent reading Middle World over buckwheat pancakes and strawberries, I poured myself another cup of coffee, […]
What’s a neuroscientist doing at ESA?
Every year at ESA, I meet awesome new people. This year, one of the very most awesome was Zen Faulkes of NeuroDojo. He’s a neuroscientist studying crayfish nervous systems – not exactly who you’d expect at an ecology meeting! But it turns out that the crayfish he’s studying is a new invasive species with some […]
ESA Interviews: Jean Burns
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. Jean Burns is an ecologist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. She’s interested in community assembly and using invasive species to […]
ESA Interviews: Steve Ellner
I interviewed ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. If I hadn’t been certain that Ithaca would have dramatically increased the amount of time I spent incapacitated by migraines, I might […]
ESA interviews: Nick Gotelli
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. Scientists are often portrayed in popular culture as utterly focused on their work, absolutely excluding personal relationships and all other interests […]
ESA Interviews: Aaron Berdanier
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. I almost missed my first interview at ESA. After 14 hours door-to-door to get to my hotel in Austin with no […]
Interview sneak peak: What’s an inquiline?
One of the people I’m interviewing this week thinks a lot about a specific system of inquilines. To prep you for reading about his work, I thought a little background on inquilines was in order. So what exactly is an inquiline? An inquiline is an animal (including bugs!) that lives inside a structure – like […]