On Tuesday, October 19th, BBC Radio 4 will include a segment about the Ethiopian Church Forests. For more information see the BBC Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcp4c
In the September 2010 issue of Popular Science, Dr. Lowman’s Peruvian Amazon Field Course at New College (and field courses through the Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences) was listed as one of the “30 Awesome College Labs“.
In 2008 a series of stakeholder interviews on sacred forests were carried out as a part of the Helsinki University’s Viikki Tropical Resources Institute’s (VITRI) research in collaboration with Ethiopian Wondo Genet College of Forestry. The purpose of the study was to explore the social aspects related to the remnant sacred forest patches in the […]
Neville Winchester provides us with a sample picture of one Berlese trap extraction taken from a Church Forest in Ethiopia (click for a larger image):
Photos from Ethiopia taken by Phil Harpootlian: [slideshow id=27]
Water bugs make a splash at BugFest 2010! New hours, new footprint, new activities, plus the return of the Alberti Flea Circus (RALEIGH) — Yes. Shrimp and crawfish are bugs too and aquatic bugs swim front and center as the 2010 “theme bug” for BugFest — the biggest one-day bug-centric event of its kind in […]
One of scientist Neville Winchester’s samples, illustrating the biodiversity of Ethiopian church forests (click for a larger image):
Along with some great moments, came some bad. Here are some of the “worst” things about our Ethiopia expedition: Car trouble Hornbill-hitting-windscreen (will send from laptop) Eating ONLY with the right hand (because the left is used for something else) Watching where you step….. the church forest ground abounds with dung-beetle habitat Eucalpyt plantings that […]
As I muse about our last 3 weeks in Ethiopia, and count my blessings for toasted cheese sandwiches, sidewalks, books, and cotton sheets on my bed in America, I think about the incredible experiences of working in Ethiopia. The best moments: Our amazing team of scientists and citizens the church leadership, with their vision to […]
Tune in to WEDU public television tonight (Thursday, August 26) at 8 p.m. as research by New College students and faculty on invasive pythons in Florida is featured on Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins. This past year, students from biology professor Meg Lowman’s ecology and conservation biology classes, as well as bioinformatics and computational […]
