Here’s a terrific 20-page booklet for anyone interested in getting more involved with local watershed work: Basins of Relations: A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting and Restoring Our Wetlands:
The pages are packed with great information about steps to take for specific problems, resources, and ideas for further organizing and investigation. It’s also an excellent resource [...]
Followers of this weblog will be interested in this editorial by Darlene Cavalier of Science Cheerleader: Harnessing Citizen Scientists: Let’s Create a Very Public Office of Technology Assessment:
Congress is right not to reopen the old OTA. The name alone strikes a negative chord with partisan detractors who feel the Office took too long to [...]
The National Phenology Network is a group of government, educational, and scientific organizations that’s, in their words, “designed and organized to engage federal agencies, environmental networks and field stations, educational institutions, and mass participation by citizen scientists.”
Phenology is the incredibly important study of ecologocal events and their timing; in the long term, it can [...]
