Birdlinks Cornell Lab Of ornithology s Birdsource Birding with a Birdcast collaborative effortdesigned to enable anyone PBS website with classroom activities such as http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BreteGriffin/birdlink.htm
Extractions: Birds Ontario: This website will serve as a growing database for several research projects including the Breeding Bird Atlas, the Nest Records Scheme, Important Bird Areas Program, Project Feederwatch, and Christmas Bird Counts. The Top 50 Birding Spots in North America: Paul Konrad's article published in September 1996 Wildbird .
TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING Cornell Laboratory of ornithology Ithaca, New York, 23,208. Central European participantsin activities of the as part of a collaborative biodiversity assessment http://www.tmuny.org/environmental_grants_content_1998.html
Extractions: Dr. George Davis The mission of the Economy and Efficiency Commission is to examine any function of County government at the request of the Board of Supervisors, on its own initiative, or as suggested by others and adopted, and to submit recommendations to the Board directed toward improving local government economy and efficiency, and effectiveness.
K-12 Education Resources Academy Curriculum Exchange; collaborative Lesson Archive U of include sounds, text,and extended activities. Cornell Lab of ornithology Classroom FeederWatch http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/subjects/edk12.htm
Extractions: UW-Stout Home Library Home Subjects K-12 Education Clip Art Nutrition and Health Social Studies Curriculum Guides ... WWW Sites WWW Sites Educator's Reference Desk K-12@University of Wisconsin Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) EdWebProject Explores technology and school reform Argus Clearinghouse Central access point for rated sites by subject including primary and secondary education Awesome Library Searchable by keyword or browse by subject or position (ex: counselor or teacher) BBC Online From the UK, includes several categories with lesson plans and sites for ages 11-18. Busy Teachers' Web Site K-12 Provides rapid access to quality source materials with annotations. Classroom Connect "Classroom Today" offers interactive topics related to curriculum and standards; the "Quest Channel" has interactive world expeditions.
BIOBYTE No.3 Thomas Trombone and Joel Cracraft of AMNH ornithology. through a variety of activities,from learning in Colombia to explore closer collaborative links and http://www.biomap.net/English/biobyte3english.htm
Extractions: Why continue to collect bird specimens? In the previous editorial, Robert Prys-Jones discussed the importance of museum bird collections for research, and the direct bond between research and conservation. Now I want to go to the question of why is it important to continue collecting? Of course, I am speaking of the responsible scientific collection, in which skins are prepared with complete and correct data and deposited in institutions whose cataloguing requirements, maintenance and access stipulated by the Ministry of the Environment are fulfilled. There are many bird enthusiasts, and many ornithologists with little contact with collections, who are against scientific collecting. Nevertheless there are good reasons to justify the continuation and intensification of responsible scientific collecting. In the United States, 15,000 birds are collected annually. Annual mortality figures that man inflicts to bird populations are as follows; vehicle hits on highways = 10,000,000; structure hits (buildings, windows, TV electrical towers, fencings etc.) = 2,000,000; sports hunting = 5,000,000; domestic animals (specially cats) = 5,000,000; contamination and poisons (including agrochemicals) = 1,000,000... and this did not quantify the damage caused by the destruction of habitat due to the urban, suburban and agricultural development. From all these sources of mortality, the only one that can benefit the birds is scientific collections, through the increase of our knowledge of the species.
Wright Center For Science Education At Tufts University Using ornithology as the central theme, participants will learn how to integratescience collaborative and independent activities were demonstrated http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/work_con_lec/pstwrk.html
Extractions: Academic Year Academic year, 2002-03 June 22-24 Music and Musical Instruments: The Physics of Sounds and Waves Music is a powerful medium - so universally appreciated that no one ever asks, "Do you like music?" Rather, the question is, "What kind of music do you like?" This workshop is appropriate for all teachers of physical science, physics, and music. Topics covered include physics of sound, standing waves, development of musical scales, and design of musical instruments. All participants will build a fully-functioning musical instrument. No knowledge of music or physics of sound is necessary. Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium. To be held at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Workshop conducted by Wright Fellow David Lapp. View online book The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments June 25-29 Space Science XIX: Space Art and Science Astronomical artwork has fired our imagination and helped maintain our interest in the exploration of space. Learn how artists, inspired by their own creativity and the latest scientific discoveries, produce images and animations. This workshop is both a historical perspective and an interdisciplinary look at the development of space art and science. Classroom-ready materials appropriate for both art and science classes are included. Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. To be held at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Workshop conducted by Wright Fellow Donna Young.
October 2000 4-H Newsletter Miao Project Director The Funders collaborative on Youth at the Cornell Lab of ornithology,159 Sapsucker classroomtested lesson plans, activities for youth http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/4h/news/2000/10-00.htm
Extractions: Bill Umscheid A small task group of salaried and volunteer staff met recently for follow-up discussions about volunteer recognition. The group's task was to review and reconfirm the newly developed volunteer recognition categories, make recommendations for use at the county level, simplify the application process in any ways possible and make recommendations for handling recognition in years when there is no forum. The group did review the recognition categories and felt they were appropriate for continued use. Some ideas were generated for marketing the recognition system and clarifying the criteria for judging applications. These changes will be made to the information available on the Kentucky 4-H home page.
Natural Selection: Subject Gateway To The Natural World Edward Grey Institute of Field ornithology.; Birds;. about the Society s interests,activities, membership, fellowship and a list of collaborative projects. http://nature.ac.uk/browse/577.06.html
Extractions: British Ecological Society Web site of the British Ecological Society, describing the Society's aims, structure, publications, meetings and other activities. The site is split into six areas, each catering for a different audience: general public; researchers; students; teachers; journalists and authors. Subject coverage includes career information, an introduction to ecology and details of the Society's publications including the Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Functional Ecology and Journal of Ecology. The British Ecological Society is concerned with "using the science of ecology as a basis for nature conservation, sound environmental management and sustainable development" through its efforts in research, its publications and conferences. Biology/Societies, etc.; British Ecological Society; Cedar Creek Natural History Area Cedar Creek is a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Minnesota "with natural habitats that represent the entire state", including boreal forest, prairie and deciduous forest. There are pages offering more detailed information on the area's habitats, plants, insects, birds and microbes. Features include an insect photo album and checklist, and images of the top 100 plants of Cedar Creek. Other sections look at research at the Creek and outreach programmes. A useful resource is the index of publications, with many offering abstracts and full-text. These pages are hosted on the Web site of the University of Minnesota in the US.
CT DEP Environmental Education Curricula These activities promote critical thinking and problem solving skills. of ornithology. HabitatNetwork is a Connecticutbased collaborative effort dedicated to http://dep.state.ct.us/educ/kellogg/curricula.htm
Extractions: Project Food, Land and People is designed to provide supplementary educational material emphasizing the environment and our agricultural impact. It promotes an educational approach that allows students to understand the interrelationships among agriculture and the environment and the people of the world. Its goal is to create critical thinking skills that will provide for sustainable practices that benefit our environment while meeting our needs for food, clothing, and shelter. This project was designed to complement Project Learning Tree, WILD, Agriculture in the Classroom materials, and national youth programs. To learn more about this program, email Susan Quincy or call (203) 734-2513.
TCD - People Fellowship activities should be collaborative and interactive in allow alumni to developcollaborative projects, meet Cornell Lab of ornithology Ithaca, NY USA http://www.latam.ufl.edu/tcd/alumni.html
Extractions: The TCD Professional Visitors Program and the TCD Practitioner Experience Program provide opportunities for alumni to stay involved with TCD. We also have an Alumni E-mail List Serve that provides information on job openings, upcoming conferences, and new publications. And, we are in the process of building an Alumni Contact List to post on this web site to facilitate networking. We would love to learn about the interesting activities and projects you are involved in! TCD is launching a new initiative called the TCD Professional Visitors and Non-Degree Training Program. This competitive program will provide funding for practitioners, researchers and advanced graduate students in the field of tropical conservation and development to carry out short-term projects and to complete non-degree training at UF. Fellowship activities should be collaborative and interactive in nature - both TCD and the fellow should benefit from the experience. TCD is especially interested in having TCD alumni return to campus as guest lecturers for TCD core courses. This would greatly enhance course content, while at the same time, allow alumni to develop collaborative projects, meet with colleagues, and visit the UF Libraries. A full announcement for the Professional Visitors Program can be found at:
Lrrap Chapter 7 Strategic Objectives Marketing; Product Development; collaborative Marketing; Community Based Opportunitiesinclude activities such as cycling fishing, canoeing, ornithology and crafts http://www.lancashireruralpartnership.gov.uk/chp7_strategic.htm
Extractions: www.Lancashireruralpartnership.gov.uk Home About Us LRRAP Documents ... Links Lancashire is a complex patchwork of interwoven communities that accommodates the very urban and the deep rural within relatively close proximity. The economic and social relationships between the various communities in Lancashire are equally complex and historically it has been difficult to provide a focus for rural development outside the rural priority areas around the Forest of Bowland AONB. Consequently Lancashires rural assets have not yet realised their potential and as such are regarded by the Lancashire Rural Partnership as under utilised and capable of contributing significantly more to future development. Rural Development funding has been highly targeted and arguably fragmented in its delivery. The absence of a coherent framework or mechanism for managing local development has resulted in overly bureaucratic management arrangements that can hinder local delivery and dilute local impact. Large parts of rural Lancashire have not been the recipients of any of the main economic development funding regimes. As a result they have operated in something of a vacuum as far as rural policy and rural development action has been concerned. The purpose of the Lancashire Rural Recovery Action Plan is to provide a much greater level of clarity to rural regeneration objectives and greater efficiency in management and delivery.
ELAN: Jan99 : Tangara #22 2/3 Ornithological Society y Society of Caribbean ornithology. migratory bird conservation;(3) collaborative, educational activities involving local http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/elan/jan99/0053.html
Society For Conservation Biology (SCB)/SCB/Publications Translate this page the Western Hemisphere interested in pursuing a career in ornithology. mechanismpromoting the development of new collaborative activities among institutions http://conbio.net/SCB/Publications/NeoCons/archives/Vol1No6-Diciembre-Dezembro-D
Extractions: Login (members) ... archives http://www.conservationbiology.org/SCB/Publications/NeoCons/ NeoCons is published by the Society for Conservation Biology, an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity (http://www.conservationbiology.org/). FORMADO COMITE INTERINO PARA LA CREACION DE SECCION DE LA SCB EN AMERICA NEOTROPICAL Y AUSTRAL / INTERIM COMMITTEE FOR THE CREATION OF SCB SECTION IN AUSTRAL AND NEOTROPICAL AMERICA FORMED (English below) (English) NeoCons PARTE I / PART I: Conservation Biology (2001) Vol. 15, No. 6. CONTENIDO (Castellano) Meffe, Gary K. Unidad. Meffe, Gary K. Agradecimientos del Editor 1. Becas para estudios superiores / Scholarships for graduate studies: MAESTRIA EN UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS LAGOS, CHILE (Castellano / Spanish) 3. Nuevo sitio en Internet / New website: BASE DE DATOS SOBRE FUENTES DE COOPERACION (Castellano / Spanish) 8. Funding oportunity / Oportunidad de financiamiento: IAI SMALL GRANT PROGRAM (ENGLISH)
Society For Conservation Biology (SCB)/SCB/Activities British Trust for ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford resulting from human activity(eg, deforestation education components, and collaborative agreements between http://conbio.net/SCB/Activities/Meetings/2002/abstracts/Thursday/aistwo.cfm
Extractions: Densities of several species of deer are increasing strongly in many areas of lowland England. This has widely caused severe impacts on woodland regeneration and vegetation structure. It has created particularly serious difficulties for maintaining traditional coppice management systems which are of high value for nature conservation. Using data from a variety of sources we show how browsing pressure has complex effects on vegetation structure by altering stem densities, tree height, canopy closure and foliage profiles. Data are presented to illustrate these changes in coppiced woodland. We review the implications for plant and animal communities. It is concluded that the scale of habitat changes now occurring in many lowland English woods as a result of intensified browsing pressure will have long-term ecological effects and is likely to lead to a reduction in the conservation value of many sites unless checked.
Ramsar And The SIDS to the officers work, particularly the activities related to resources for participatoryand collaborative natural resource Society of Caribbean ornithology. http://www.ramsar.org/features_sids2.htm
Extractions: Ramsar's past, on-going and future activities related to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Annex 2 Wetlands for the Future Fund (WWF) Country Year funded Project name Comments Belize Towards the wise use and conservation of the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary This activity aimed at increasing local support through dialogue and promoting involvement of the local community, so that the community could play a more direct role in the management and conservation of Crooked Tree. The project included funds for the preparation of a training handbook on conflict management which incorporates an account of the experience gained. Caribbean Workshop (Trinidad) Caribbean Wetland Workshop Caribbean Mangrove Curriculum Transfer The NGO Mangrove Action Project is broadening the scope of its environmental education programme by adapting and translating its education curriculum on mangroves to Spanish, to be used in the schools of coastal Honduras and other Caribbean island status. Additionally, 100 teachers will be trained at workshops in Honduras and San Andres island, Colombia. Guyana Preparatory assistance for Guyana's accession to Ramsar Currently in progress, the project aims to build the capacity of government environmental agencies and NGO partners for the integrated, collaborative management of Guyanas wetland systems, as well as to assist Guyanas accession to the Ramsar convention and identify the first wetland in Guyana for Ramsar recognition.
Projects this site hosts a number of collaborative projects as and The Cornell Lab of ornithology(The Lab plans, historical materials, handson activities, related Web http://156.3.254.129/documentation/projects/projects.html
Wallerstein Collaborative For Urban Environmental Education Classroom Earth. Cornell Lab of ornithology. Department of Education ask ERIC Environmental Lesson Plans. NJ DEP- Radon Alert Lesson Plans and activities. http://www.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ejf9434/wallersteindb/rlinks.cgi?db=rlinks&ui
Pasture Biodiversity collaborative relationships with a range of ecological British Trust for ornithology,Dutch Butterfly Opportunities Demonstration activities at whole farm http://www.iger.bbsrc.ac.uk/Business/PastureBiodiversity.htm
SEDL - SCRTEC: Database Of K-12 Resources - Science CIESE offers free, collaborative Internetbased lessons that real world science activities that go far beyond Perfect Storm Webquest, are collaborative activities. Source Web site http://www.southcentralrtec.org/talon/subjects/science.html
Extractions: Displaying Science resources sorted by sub-category. Click on a sub-category to go to that section of the page, or scroll down to browse all resources. Sub-categories for Science: Continue Browsing by Category? Arts and Music Computers General Health, Fitness, and Games ... Professional Development Science Social Studies Special Needs Description: A wonderful search engine of hundreds of digital videos. Source: PBS Web site: http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/index.html
A Sound Vision send the sound files to the Lab of ornithology. appear to be going about their activitiesquietly. of their eventual promise, is in the collaborative and broad http://birds.cornell.edu/Publications/birdscope/Summer2001/Sound_Vision.html
Extractions: Bioacoustics researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are hiding microphones in termite mounds in an African forest, mounting them on roof-tops in the Delaware Valley, and dropping them to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean to witness, by sound rather than sight, some of earth's most magnificent spectacles-the gatherings of forest elephants and the massive migrations of birds and whales. Common Yellowthroat by Donald Maslick Using acoustic technologies, Lab scientists can detect sounds that are so low in frequency we can't even hear them, such as some calls of elephants and whales. They can capture and quantify fleeting vocalizations using computer programs developed here at the Lab. And they can send machines out to collect sounds 24 hours a day continuously, in good weather and bad, then analyze the data in the comfort of their offices. Ultimately they hope to monitor the health and activities of entire populations of birds, elephants, and whales on a scale that has been impossible using traditional visual tools alone. As darkness falls over the Delaware Valley, computers in five homes kick on and begin recording the night sounds from rooftop microphones. Programmed by Lab researcher Harold Mills, the computers pick out and store the calls of warblers and sparrows based on their durations and frequencies. The next morning, the computers automatically send the sound files to the Lab of Ornithology. Technicians then use computer programs to help classify the sounds quickly, rejecting background noises such as raindrops and katydids to identify the birds that passed overhead.
