Tag Archives: ecology

New K-12 Forestry Math Activities for Biology in a Box

Posted on January 9, 2013 by admin

A newly revised activity book with K-12 math activities for the forestry-themed Biology in a Box is now available on the NIMBioS web site. NIMBioS’ Education and Outreach team collaborated with the University of Tennessee’s Biology in a Box program … Continue reading →

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Ingersoll Shares Bat Ecologist Experience with UTEP

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Tom Ingersoll recently visited the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) to share his experiences in bat ecology and modeling by meeting with students and leading a workshop and field trip to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Ingersoll’s … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Shares Biology & Math at USA Science & Engineering Festival

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS had a great time in DC last weekend exhibiting to a crowd of more than 150,000 at the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Billed as “the largest celebration of science in the USA,” special guests included “rock stars” of … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS in DC Today at USA Science & Engineering Festival

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS is excited to join representatives from UT’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology today at the country’s largest national science festival. The aim of the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival is to increase the public’s awareness of the … Continue reading →

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The Story of a Scientific Collaboration: How One Nature Paper Came to Be

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Having a few linear algebraists as co-workers can come in handy — especially near Halloween — when one is stuck on a knotty mathematical biology problem with no clear solution. This proved to be the case for NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow … Continue reading →

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Ngonghala Presents the Buzz on Mosquitos and Malaria

Posted on February 27, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Calistus Ngonghala shared his research in modeling mosquito transmission of malaria at Howard University earlier this month. His talk, titled “The role of mosquito demography and nourishment habits on the dynamics of malaria transmission,” was presented to … Continue reading →

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The Beetle Invasion: New Activity on Talking Science

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

Today’s post on Talking Science, Forest Pests: Beetle Attack!, describes an activity in which participants play the role of forester who creates strategies to deal with a forest pest. While a certain level of damage to forests from pests is … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Postdoc Visits Cal State San Marcos

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Xavier Thibert-Plante discussed his research into the process of ecological speciation at a recent talk at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). Thibert-Plante’s visit is a part of NIMBioS’ education and outreach efforts to partner with minority-serving … Continue reading →

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Math’s Usefulness to Ecology Presented by Gaoue at Howard U

Posted on November 1, 2011 by admin

NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Orou Gaoue visited Washington, D.C. last week to inspire Howard University students and faculty to think about real-life ecological questions that mathematics can answer. Gaoue gave a colloquium titled “Modeling the short- and long-term consequences of plant harvest by … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Outreach: Girl Scouts Identify Wildlife Tracks

Posted on September 9, 2011 by admin

By examining wildlife tracks imprinted in clay, area Girl Scouts learned how to identify the animal that would have made them in a recent outreach activity led by NIMBioS at Cherokee Caverns in Knoxville.  Using materials from Biology in a … Continue reading →

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