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Becoming a Wikipedian ✍🏽

When I saw that the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon assignment was a part of the course syllabus for Applied Plant Ecology, I was confused. Throughout my academic career, I had been constantly taught that Wikipedia is an unreliable source. However, Dr. Bazely taught me otherwise. As she stated in her three-partedWikipedia Edit-a-Thon Chronicles blog post, she hadContinue reading “Becoming a Wikipedian ✍🏽”

African-American Women in STEM Fields: Cassandra Extavour

Cassandra Extavour is a Canadian geneticist, researcher of organismic and evolutionary biology, professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, and a classical singer. The central focus of her research has revolved around evolutionary and developmental genetics. Extavour was born and raised in a mixed race household. Her father was from Trinidad and TobagoContinue reading “African-American Women in STEM Fields: Cassandra Extavour”

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature

It is very important to be able to distinguish between different types of literature when you are looking for sources to write up an essay or lab report. This includes primary, secondary, and tertiary literature. I have listed three different documents that fall under each type literature. These documents revolve around the Kudzu, which isContinue reading “Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature”

United Nations Convention on Biodiversity

The Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) is an international legally-binding treaty with three main goals: conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of biodiversity, fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. Just to recap, components of biodiversity are all the various forms of life on Earth, including ecosystems, animals, plants, fungi,Continue reading “United Nations Convention on Biodiversity”

Tansley 1917: What’s Missing?

Tansley’s 1917 paper brought into prominence an ecological problem of considerable interest and importance, namely the relation of competition between species, particularly closely related species, to their soil preferences. In order to investigate this phenomenon, two species, Galium saxatile and Galium sylvestre, in competition were grown on different types of soil. G. saxatile is ubiquitousContinue reading “Tansley 1917: What’s Missing?”

The Evolution of Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England and was a British naturalist known for his theory of evolution and his deep understanding of the process of natural selection. Darwin was born into a family of scientists, in which he was the second youngest of six kids and a child of wealth andContinue reading “The Evolution of Charles Darwin”