Sentences with phrase «on urban ecology»

Every year since the inception in 1980 of Wave Hill's Forest Project Summer Collaborative, one of the nation's longest running youth development internships focusing on urban ecology, Bronx - area high school students have participated in urban woodland restoration projects while learning...

First launched in 2006, the Urban Field Station provides a location for this long - term research partnership promoting applied science on urban ecology, conservation, stewardship, and ecological literacy to support ecosystem management and human well - being.

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«Our experiments with fipronil and bifenthrin sprays indicate that the overall kill of these insecticides on Argentine ant colonies is substantially improved — by 57 to 142 percent — by incorporating (Z)-9-hexadecenal in the sprays,» said Dong - Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology and the research project leader, whose lab focuses on urban entomology, insect behavior and chemical ecology.

Her research interests include the ecology of tick - borne diseases and the impacts of green spaces on urban resilience.

One of those early programs, an ecology summer camp at the West Rock Nature Center, continues to this day on the 20 - acre urban farm that is now the charter school's high school campus.

The cats go on fulfilling their role in the urban / suburban ecology as mousers for the rest of their usually short lives, at which point the mousing role is ceded to native predators.

He is particularly keen on public scholarship that brings academic insights to the wider public without unnecessary jargon or impenetrable theories.Some of the topics he has addressed includes wolf recovery, outdoor cats and biodiversity, barred and northern spotted owls, the Canadian seal hunt, cosmopolitanism, the Earth Charter, precaution, rewilding, sustainability science, and urban ecology.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

For more than three decades, Wave Hill has offered a paid summer internship program for high school students, giving them an opportunity to gain hands - on field and academic experience as they learn about urban ecology.

In his academic work, Light is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters primarily on the normative dimensions of climate change, restoration ecology, and urban sustainability, and has authored, co-authored, and edited 19 booksincluding Environmental Values (2008), Controlling Technology (2005), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003), Technology and the Good Life?

He's a leader in the emerging field of urban ecology and an expert on carbon footprints, the metric used to gauge the volume of greenhouse gases that a person or community emits during the course of their everyday activities.

She is a frequent speaker and spokesperson on the topics of urban gardening, ecology, home preserving, and community.