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Links
Here's a set of links about organismal biology. and jobs. If you have any links you would to see added to the site, please contact us..
| Interships, etc. | Evolution | Ecology | Conservation Biology | Invasive Species | Popular Science sites | Science Blog Roll |
Interships, Jobs, and Graduate School
In addition to the links below, you can register for the club's mailing list and we'll send you announcements.
- Field Club Mailing List Archive. Announcments are forwarded several times a week to the Field Club mailing list. You can browse old emails at the archive.
- Ecological Society Job Listing
- List of Graduate Schools
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, UMass, Amherst.
Evolution
- Understanding Evolution:
One of the best sites on the web for well organized and reliable information
on evolution. One of the most useful features of this site is a section
on issues about teaching evolution.
- Talk Origins Archive: Exploring
the Creation/Evolution Controversy An excellent site dedicated to
dealing with the anti-science attacks on the theory and teaching of
evolution. This site has an Index
to Creationist Claims that exhaustively lists the criticisms of
evolution by creationists and intelligent design advocates, and provides
scientific rebuttals of these critiques.
- PBS Evolution Documentary:
A companion website to PBS's Evolution documentary series.
- American
Museum of Natural History: Darwin A website devoted to last year's
Darwin exhibit at New York city's American Museum of Natural History.
- The Collapse of Intelligent Design A lecture by Ken Miller on the collapse of the Intelligent Design advocates arguements against evolution. If your interested in the current the attacks on evolutionary biology by creationists and intelligent design advocates, then you'll enjoy this two hour presentation.
Ecology
- Ecology
WWW Page A portal maintained by Harvard University to websites dealing
with ecology.
- Ecological Society of America: ESA
is the premier professional organization of ecologists in the US. Their
website has lots of greats resources on jobs, issues, teaching, etc.,
about ecology.
Conservation Biology
- Society for Conservation Biology.
The SCB is the largest professional society of professionals working
on the conservation of biodiversity.
- Center for Biological
Diversity. The CBD is a legal advocacy group that works to insure
enforcement of the nation's laws that protect biodiversity.
- Conservation Biology Institute
- Conservation Magazine. SCB
Magazine aimed at lay audience and environmental educators.
- SCB
links to conservation biology teaching resources.
- Yahoo
Portal to Conservation Biology
- "The
Land Ethic". In 1949 a collection of essays entitled "A Sand County
Almanac" was published by
Aldo Leopold. Among those essays was "The Land Ethic". In this landmark
essay Leopold argued the ecological community should be included in
our considerations of ethical behavior.
- The International Union for the Conservation
of Nature. The IUCN mision is to: "...influence, encourage and assist
societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity
of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable
and ecologically sustainable." Over 10,000 scientists are in partnership
with the IUCN and each year they produce the Red
List. This is a report that lists the world's endangered and threatened
species and the reasons for their decline. Here is link to the most
recent Red List report
summary.
- Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
The CBC is a program at the American
Museum of Natural History that focuses on global research and education
on issues concerning the conservation of biodiversity.
- The Biodiversity
Informatics Facility at the American Museum of Natural History's
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation applies high-tech to the study
and conservation of biodiversity.
Invasive Species
- USDA National Invasive
Species Information Center
- EPA Oceans, Coasts,
and Estuaries Program, Invasive Species Page
- IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group
- Global Invasive Species Initiative.
The TNC's program is aimed at managing invasive species in North America.
- Massachusett's Section of the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
Popular Science Sites
- Nature News
- Science Now
- Scientific American News
- Wired News
- Seed Magazine
- New York Times Science Section
- Science Daily
- Animal Planet
- Google News
Science Blog Roll
- The Tangled Bank
- Aetiology
- Biology News Net
- Evolutionary Times
- Gene Expression
- Invasive Species Blog
- The Loom
- Ontogeny
- Panda’s Thumb
- Scientific American Blog
- She blinded me with science
- World Science
- Real Climate
- Pure Pedantry
- Pharyngula