10/18/2017 Update by Sharon Snider during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: Teacher Argonaut Sharon Snider is from Metz, West Virginia. We caught up with her on the slopes of Penang Hill while she was supporting the tree canopy research team. View the full update
Read more →10/18/2017 Updates from the canopy and arachnid survey teams during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: The Penang Hill BioBlitz team is already making discoveries after just a couple of days surveying the rainforest. Here are a couple of quick updates from the canopy and arachnid survey teams.
Read more →10/18/2017 Interviews by Haley to meet (some of) the team during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: Over 50 scientists from Penang and around the world are convening in Malaysia for the 2017 Penang Hill BioBlitz. The JASON team has been catching up with a few of them
Read more →10/18/2017 Update by Alexa Borden during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: I’m JASON Student Argonaut Alexa Borden reporting in from the rainforest of Penang, Malaysia. Our team has already had some amazing and new experiences. To get here, we took a series of plane rides — one
Read more →Below is a report from JASON Learning regarding the progress and preparations for the 2017 Penang Hill BioBlitz Argonaut Expedition.
Read more →Dr. Meg Lowman and JASON Argonauts will bring you live events, real time Q&A, photos, videos and more direct from the rainforest of Malaysia. Here are a few ways you can follow the action.
Read more →Article written by Dr. Lowman and Palatty Allesh Sinu in BioScience: Increasing degradation of tropical forests prompts the consideration of unconventional ideas to promote conservation. In his recent book, E. O. Wilson advocates conserving half of the planet for one species (Homo sapiens) and the other half
Read more →Beza, Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time – A Conservation Story is a wonderful story to help bring this message into school and to educate children about the importance of conservation in an accessible way. Promoting conservation through literature is one of the easiest and most important ways that we can create a dialogue with young people about the often abstract and difficult concept of what conservation really means to them.
Read more →Enjoy this cool critter, in the family Scutelleridae. Via Josh Martin: We nick-named this one “Punisher Beetle”, but 1) that’s not it’s name, and 2) it’s not a beetle, it’s a Hemipteran. I think it’s in the Scutelleridae (shield-backed bugs) family. Punisher Beetle by Tanner Boucher on
Read more →This film was produced by our awesome partner, Untamed Science, with Haley Nelson Chamberlain as film maker. During May 2017, our expedition had multiple goals – 1. to meet with the Arch Bishop of the Coptic church, 2. to host a workshop for priest leadership about the
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