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History of Science (HIST SCI) 1
History of Science (HIST SCI) 1 HIST SCI 133 — BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY, 1950 - TODAY HISTORY OF SCIENCE (HIST 3 credits. From medical advancements to environmental crises and global food SCI) shortages, the life sciences are implicated in some of the most pressing social issues of our time. This course explores events in the history of biology from the mid-twentieth century to today, and examines how HIST SCI/ENVIR ST/HISTORY 125 — GREEN SCREEN: ENVIRONMENTAL developments in this science have shaped and are shaped by society. In PERSPECTIVES THROUGH FILM the first unit, we investigate the origins of the institutions, technologies, 3 credits. and styles of practice that characterize contemporary biology, such From Teddy Roosevelt's 1909 African safari to the Hollywood blockbuster as the use of mice as "model organisms" for understanding human King Kong, from the world of Walt Disney to The March of the Penguins, diseases. The second unit examines biological controversies such as the cinema has been a powerful force in shaping public and scientific introduction of genetically modified plants into the food supply. The final understanding of nature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first unit asks how biological facts and theories have been and continue to be century. How can film shed light on changing environmental ideas and used as a source for understanding ourselves. Enroll Info: None beliefs in American thought, politics, and culture? And how can we come Requisites: None to see and appreciate contested issues of race, class, and gender in Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science nature on screen? This course will explore such questions as we come Level - Elementary to understand the role of film in helping to define the contours of past, L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S present, and future environmental visions in the United States, and their Repeatable for Credit: No impact on the real world struggles of people and wildlife throughout the Last Taught: Spring 2021 world. -
Introduction to Plant Ecology
Unit 1 Introduction to Plant Ecology Unit 1 INTRODUCTION TO PLANT ECOLOGYECOLOGYECOLOGY StructureStructureStructure 1.1 Introduction 1.6 Basic terms of Ecology Expected Learning Outcomes Environment 1.2 What is Ecology? Biosphere 1.3 History of Ecology Ecosystem 1.4 Subdivisions of Ecology Population 1.5 Relationship of Ecology Community with other Disciplines of 1.7 Summary Biology 1.8 Terminal Question 1.9 Answers 1.1 INTRODUCTION Organisms do not live in isolation. All organisms are linked to their surroundings. The survival of an organism thus depends upon its surroundings. These surroundings of an organism constitute its (are called as - delete) environment. Any change in the surroundings/environment affects the growth and survival of living organisms to a significant extent. Nutrients and energy get distributed among various living components present in a particular environment. Ecology is the study of the relationship of organisms i.e. plants, animals, microorganisms with their surroundings (environment). Ecological studies deal with the relationships of organisms with their environment. The present unit provides information about basic concepts in ecology. Expected Learning Outcomes After the study of this Unit, you should be able to define various terms used in ecology (environment, population, community, ecosystem and ecosphere), 7 Block 1 Ecology and Ecological Factors describe subdivisions of ecology, outline differences between natural and man-made environment, describe components of the ecosystem, enlist characteristics of the community, enumerate knowledge about recent developments in the field of ecology, and discuss the interrelationships between ecology and other disciplines of biology. 1.2 WHAT IS ECOLOGY? Hanns Reiter (1868) gave the concept of ecology. -
Modernist Aesthetic in the Case of Lord Alfred Douglas and Marie Carmichael Stopes
33 The Poetry That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Modernist Aesthetic in the Case of Lord Alfred Douglas and Marie Carmichael Stopes Christina Hauck Kansas State University An improbable friendship sprang up in 1938 when one “Mrs Carmi- chael,” representing herself as a young mother, wrote Lord Alfred Douglas to show him a sonnet and ask his advice about publishing it. Little realizing that he was entering into correspondence with the notorious birth control advocate, Marie Carmichael Stopes, the staunchly Catholic Douglas wrote back kindly, calling Mrs. Carmichael a “pleasant poet” and lamenting his own difficulties publishing (Hall 282). If Douglas didn’t understand quite whom he was writing to, Stopes herself, rabidly homophobic and anti-Catholic, must have: Douglas’s claim to fame lay less in his poetry, whose quality critics debated fiercely when they bothered to read it at all, but in his having been a central actor in the events leading up to Oscar Wilde’s trial and imprisonment.1 By the time the correspondence had be- gun, Douglas had long converted to Catholicism and was admitting only to limited homosexual activities over a limited period, with Wilde or any- one else; Stopes apparently believed him.2 After several months, Stopes revealed her “true” identity. Douglas, understandably, was nervous. In a letter to George Bernard Shaw, he writes: I am fated to make friends with my enemies. For the last three months I have been corresponding with a lady who wrote about my poetry and poetry in general. She expressed great admira- tion for me as a poet. -
Dr. James E. Strick
Curriculum Vitae for: Dr. James E. Strick Chair, Program in Science, Technology and Society Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604-3003 301-512-0976 E-Mail: [email protected] Education Doctor of Philosophy, History, Princeton University, 1997 Dissertation Topic: “The British Spontaneous Generation Debates of 1860-1880: Medicine, Evolution and Laboratory Science in the Victorian Context” Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Gerald L. Geison Master of Arts, History, Princeton University, 1993 Master of Science, Microbiology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1983 Bachelor of Science, Biology and Secondary Education, SUNY College at Cortland, 1981 Employment Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Franklin and Marshall College, 2002-2008; tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, spring 2008; promotion to full Professor, May 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Princeton University, Spring 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2001; Smithsonian Fellow, Fall 2000. Assistant Professor, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, August 1998- Spring 2001 (on research leave, 2000-2001) Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, August 1996 - July 1998 Teaching Assistant, Program in History of Science, Princeton University, Spring 1996 Princeton Friends School, 1990-1994, Middle School General Science Park School of Baltimore, 1987-1990, Sciences, Biomedical -
Some Philosophical Questions About Paleontology and Their Practica1 Consequences
ACTA GEOLOGICA HISPANICA. Concept and method in Paleontology. 16 (1981) nos 1-2, pags. 7-23 Some philosophical questions about paleontology and their practica1 consequences by Miquel DE RENZI Depto. de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Valencia. Burjassot (Valencia). This papcr attempts to objectively discuss the actual state ofpaleontology. The En aquest treball s'ha intentat fer un balanc d'alguns aspectes de I'estat de la progress of this science stood still somewhat during the latter part of the last paleontologia. La historia de la paleontologia mostra un estancarnent a les century which caused it to develop apart from the biological sciences. an area to darreries del segle passac aquest estancament va Fer que la nostra ciencia s'anes which it is naturally tied. As aconsequence, this bruought a long-term stagnation, allunyant cada cop mes de I'area de les ciencies bii~logiques,amb les qualsestava because biology, dunng this century, has made great progress and paleontology lligada naturalment AixO va portar, com a conseqüencia, un important has not During the last 20 years paleontology as a science hasrecuperatedsome endarreriment, car la biologia, durant aquest segle, ha donat un gran pas of this loss, but we as scientists need to be careful in various aspects of its endavant, mentre que aquest no ha estat el cas de lapaleontologia Al nostre pais development -i possiblement a molts d'altres- la paleontologia es, fonamentalment, un estn per datar estrats. Tanmateix, un mal estri, car la datació es basadaen les especies fossils i la seva determinació es fonamenta en el ccncepte d'especie biolbgica; els fossils pero en moltes ocasions, són utilitzats mes aviat com si fossin segells o monedes. -
The Paleontology Synthesis Project and Establishing a Framework for Managing National Park Service Paleontological Resource Archives and Data
Lucas, S.G. and Sullivan, R.M., eds., 2018, Fossil Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79. 589 THE PALEONTOLOGY SYNTHESIS PROJECT AND ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCE ARCHIVES AND DATA VINCENT L. SANTUCCI1, JUSTIN S. TWEET2 and TIMOTHY B. CONNORS3 1National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, 1849 “C” Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20240, [email protected]; 2National Park Service, 9149 79th Street S., Cottage Grove, MN 55016, [email protected]; 3National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO 80225, [email protected] Abstract—The National Park Service Paleontology Program maintains an extensive collection of digital and hard copy documents, publications, photographs and other archives associated with the paleontological resources documented in 268 parks. The organization and preservation of the NPS paleontology archives has been the focus of intensive data management activities by a small and dedicated team of NPS staff. The data preservation strategy complemented the NPS servicewide inventories for paleontological resources. The first phase of the data management, referred to as the NPS Paleontology Synthesis Project, compiled servicewide paleontological resource data pertaining to geologic time, taxonomy, museum repositories, holotype fossil specimens, and numerous other topics. In 2015, the second phase of data management was implemented with the creation and organization of a multi-faceted digital data system known as the NPS Paleontology Archives and NPS Paleontology Library. Two components of the NPS Paleontology Archives were designed for the preservation of both park specific and servicewide paleontological resource archives and data. A third component, the NPS Paleontology Library, is a repository for electronic copies of geology and paleontology publications, reports, and other media. -
Scientific BIOGRAPHY and the CASE of GEORGES CUVIER
Hist. Sci.) xiv (1976), 101-137 1976HisSc..14..101O SCIENTIFic BIOGRAPHY AND THE CASE OF GEORGES CUVIER: WITH A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Dorinda OutralU University of Reading The purpose of this introduction is to provide some interpretative tools for the reader of the body of secondary literature on Georges Cuvier which is examined in the attached critical bibliography. Criticism and analysis of existing work is therefore emphasized, and the problems in volved in constructing a positive biography of Cuvier are only briefly examined. Not only strictly biographical studies, but also work on all aspects of Cuvier's achievement, have been so strongly informed by pre suppositions about his character, that a knowledge of this bias and its characteristic expressions is nece.<;sary before previous work on Cuvier can be properly interp'reted. This bibliography is thus also intended as a necessary clearing of the ground before further study of Cuvier's career can be undertaken. This is true not only because it is necessary to discover the precise extent of factual inadequacy in our knowledge of Cuvier's life and achievement, but also because we need to increase our awareness of the role which biographical inquiry has played in the history of science, for without this awareness, the full implications of the adoption of the form cannot be assessed. Interest in Georges Cuvier has increased considerably during the last decade, but so far almost no account has been taken of the extraordinary biographical tradition through which we view him. Almost every presen tation of Cuvier since his death in 1832 has been dominated by emphases which were established very soon afterwards, and which have continued to monopolize the attention of historians of the life-sciences until very recently. -
GEOLOGY THEME STUDY Page 1
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS Dr. Harry A. Butowsky GEOLOGY THEME STUDY Page 1 Geology National Historic Landmark Theme Study (Draft 1990) Introduction by Dr. Harry A. Butowsky Historian, History Division National Park Service, Washington, DC The Geology National Historic Landmark Theme Study represents the second phase of the National Park Service's thematic study of the history of American science. Phase one of this study, Astronomy and Astrophysics: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study was completed in l989. Subsequent phases of the science theme study will include the disciplines of biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and other related sciences. The Science Theme Study is being completed by the National Historic Landmarks Survey of the National Park Service in compliance with the requirements of the Historic Sites Act of l935. The Historic Sites Act established "a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the American people." Under the terms of the Act, the service is required to survey, study, protect, preserve, maintain, or operate nationally significant historic buildings, sites & objects. The National Historic Landmarks Survey of the National Park Service is charged with the responsibility of identifying America's nationally significant historic property. The survey meets this obligation through a comprehensive process involving thematic study of the facets of American History. In recent years, the survey has completed National Historic Landmark theme studies on topics as diverse as the American space program, World War II in the Pacific, the US Constitution, recreation in the United States and architecture in the National Parks. -
Epilogue: Pattern Cladistics from Goethe to Brady
Epilogue: Pattern Cladistics From Goethe to Brady Most, if not all, ideas in science are recycled, rediscovered, or rehashed, either sur- reptitiously, through rereading and rediscovering old works, or simply (commonly?) through lack of knowledge of past achievements. The idea of transformation—that things might change, transform, convert into other things—for instance, has been proposed many times, by both evolutionists and non-evolutionists alike. Yet the notion of transformation is really a myth, a story which many scientists embrace, a story that tells of living things transforming into other living things, with their role to interpret its meaning and mechanism: The fall of Paradise to the untamed wild, the tamed landscape to the Biblical flood, the reigns of monarchs, a kingdom to a republic and the pastoral to the industrial—of transformations there are plenty. A deep desire to uncover what mechanism(s) lie behind these transformations has provided many explanations, from the acquisition of sin after the fall from grace, to God’s will, to progress, however construed. The belief that every transformation neatly fits a law or model by which nature abides has shaped our way of thinking. Yet concomitant with such thoughts is the recognition that Nature is complex, and that Nature’s complexity obeys no single law or theory that places it neatly into a box. For every law and theory, we are told, there are exceptions, which are given ad hoc explanations. Man may have toiled the soil to shape nature into his or her image of Eden, but complexity does not fit any man-made law. -
The Science of the Struggle for Existence on the Foundations of Ecology
P1: FpQ CY239/Cooper-FM 0 52180432 9 July 29, 2003 15:6 The Science of the Struggle for Existence On the Foundations of Ecology GREGORY J. COOPER Washington and Lee University v P1: FpQ CY239/Cooper-FM 0 52180432 9 July 29, 2003 15:6 published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge university press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcon´ 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org c Gregory J. Cooper 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2003 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface Times Roman 10.25/13 pt. System LATEX 2 [TB] A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Cooper, Gregory John. The science of the struggle for existence : on the foundations of ecology / by Gregory Cooper. p. cm – (Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-521-80432-9 1. Ecology – Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series. QH540.5.C66 2003 577–dc21 2002041441 ISBN 0 521 80432 9 hardback vi P1: FpQ CY239/Cooper-FM 0 52180432 -
Ecological Approaches to Modernism, the U.S. South, and 20Th Century American Literature Justin Ford Tinsley University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Theses and Dissertations 12-2016 Ecological Approaches to Modernism, the U.S. South, and 20th Century American Literature Justin Ford Tinsley University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Tinsley, Justin Ford, "Ecological Approaches to Modernism, the U.S. South, and 20th Century American Literature" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 1834. http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1834 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Ecological Approaches to Modernism, the U.S. South and 20th Century American Literature A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English by Justin Tinsley University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bachelor of Arts in Professional and Technical Writing, 2006 University of Central Arkansas Master of Arts in English, 2009 December 2016 University of Arkansas This dissertation is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council _______________________________ Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen Dissertation Director ________________________________ ___________________________ Dr. M. Keith Booker Dr. Sean Dempsey Committee Member Committee Member Abstract This project seeks to draw from the insights of the emerging scholarly discipline known as ecocritism, study of the relationship between human and nonhuman in all arts and in all diverse forms, and apply them to the study of a specific regional art, that of the U.S. -
Australian Antarctic Magazine
AusTRALIAN MAGAZINE ISSUE 23 2012 7317 AusTRALIAN ANTARCTIC ISSUE 2012 MAGAZINE 23 The Australian Antarctic Division, a Division of the Department for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, leads Australia’s CONTENTS Antarctic program and seeks to advance Australia’s Antarctic interests in pursuit of its vision of having PROFILE ‘Antarctica valued, protected and understood’. It does Charting the seas of science 1 this by managing Australian government activity in Antarctica, providing transport and logistic support to SEA ICE VOYAGE Australia’s Antarctic research program, maintaining four Antarctic science in the spring sea ice zone 4 permanent Australian research stations, and conducting scientific research programs both on land and in the Sea ice sky-lab 5 Southern Ocean. Search for sea ice algae reveals hidden Antarctic icescape 6 Australia’s four Antarctic goals are: Twenty metres under the sea ice 8 • To maintain the Antarctic Treaty System and enhance Australia’s influence in it; Pumping krill into research 9 • To protect the Antarctic environment; Rhythm of Antarctic life 10 • To understand the role of Antarctica in the global SCIENCE climate system; and A brave new world as Macquarie Island moves towards recovery 12 • To undertake scientific work of practical, economic and national significance. Listening to the blues 14 Australian Antarctic Magazine seeks to inform the Bugs, soils and rocks in the Prince Charles Mountains 16 Australian and international Antarctic community Antarctic bottom water disappearing 18 about the activities of the Australian Antarctic Antarctic bioregions enhance conservation planning 19 program. Opinions expressed in Australian Antarctic Magazine do not necessarily represent the position of Antarctic ice clouds 20 the Australian Government.