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BU Abroad: Finding the Galapagos
Jackie spent a spring semester in the Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program, studying in the field and at Universidad San Francisco de Quito "My time in Ecuador allowed me to immerse myself in Ecuadorian culture and take away a better understanding of [...]the language, ideals, and way of life," she says.
The highlight of her experience, though, was a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands, the place, she says, that ties everything together for me. Like Darwin and countless naturalists before her, she reveled in the biodiversity found in the archipelago. "That such a small country could preserve and protect such biodiversity is something to look up to," she says.
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Templer’s Sense of Snow
CAS biologist, Pam Templer, probes the impact of snow-challenged winters.
Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2012/sense-of-snow/
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2015 Boston University Lecture Featuring James McCann
Sacred Waters: Historical Ecology, Power, and the Soul of the Blue Nile
November 2, 2015
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Climate Change, with Help from Henry David Thoreau
For several years, Richard Primack has been prowling Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., chronicling spring’s curtain-riser, the arrival of leaves and buds, the same details Henry David Thoreau carefully recorded a century and a half ago. Primack, [...]a College of Arts & Sciences biology professor, who pioneered the study of the effects of climate change on New England, has used Thoreau’s records to confirm that leaf-out arrives earlier today than it did then—a barometer of global warming.
Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2011/watching-climate-change-from-the-ground-and-the-heavens/
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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 6 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 1 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 2 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 5 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 4 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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