Sentences with phrase «of ethnobotany»

Seven years ago, Missouri Botanical Garden senior curator of ethnobotany Jan Salick traveled to the Himalayas to begin a study of how climate change is affecting alpine plants — and the local people who depend on them.

She enjoys teaching ESL and Art of Ethnobotany at Seaside High School and Botanical Drawing at various community centers.

This week on the podcast: We'll look into the fascinating world of ethnobotany with Nat Bletter.

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According to researchers in the Ethnobotany Department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, one medium green chile contains up to six times the amount of vitamin C in a Valencia orange, and twice the amount of vitamin A and beta carotene in a carrot.

Ian has an MSc in ethnobotany from the University of Kent, and a DPhil (PhD) in anthropology from the University of Oxford.

In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

Best known for discovering prostratin, an anti-AIDS drug derived from the mamala tree of Samoa, Cox was well respected in ethnobotany, but veterans of the Guam epidemic regarded him as a newcomer unlikely to succeed where the giants of neuroscience had failed.

The list of ecological questions that herbaria can target is long, and includes biogeography, ethnobotany, tracking invasive species, plant diseases, and studying the impact of climate change on flowering times.

Ethnobotany is basically defined as the relationship of plants and people.

For ten years, she practiced medicine in Hawaii, where she studied ethnobotany and the culinary habits of her healthiest patients.

Join Hannah and other Wolf College wild chefs during our annual Wild Cooking & Ethnobotany Expedition: The Herbal Foray the second week of July on Lake Sammamish near Seattle.

She practiced medicine in Hawaii for a decade, where she studied ethnobotany, as well as the culinary habits of her healthiest patients.

Cat has over 10 years experience in communications, marketing and publishing, she's studied anthropology, art history, woman & gender studies, botany, ethnobotany, and herbology and she is a graduate of the Rising Tide Capital Community Business Academy.

For example, the National Cancer Institute started the Belize Ethnobotany Project, which has sent of 2,000 species back to the NCI to be studied for cancer fighting properties.

Jan Timbrook, Ph.D., Curator of Ethnography Specialist in material culture and ethnobotany 805-682-4711 ext. 140 [email protected]

In a recent review of Ontario and British Columbia cases during the 2007 calendar year for a 2008 CLE paper we were doing on expert evidence, we found experts had testified in approximately 300 cases, and their expertise covered an astonishing array of issues - computers, chemistry, motor cycle gangs, the drug trade, mental health, weapons, alcoholism, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, appraisals, internal medicine, valuations, legal fees, negligence in relation to fires, anthropology, linguistics, demography, ecology, ethnobotany, custody and access, vocational testing, and marine surveying.»