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On November 4 2019 Professor Dawn Bazely was a guest on the podcast “Podcast or Perish”. This episode discussed barriers women face in STEM, and how they are under represented or disregarded on wikipedia and other platforms. Half way through the episode (37:44) she mentions that women need to be better at becoming rampant selfContinue reading “Advice to Women in STEM – Podcast or Perish”

Creating a Wikipedia account and becoming a wikipedian was relatively simple, selecting an appropriate username posed some challenge as some usernames were already taken, but I settled on Bambuseae-8368, as it is a plant I have become familiar with and like due to its ease of growth as well as its versatile spectrum of uses.Continue reading “Becoming a wikipedian: account creation and contributing to a plant ecology wiki page”

Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai born April 1, 1940 lived a full life as a renowned social environmental and political activists. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement in 1977, (https://www.greenbeltmovement.org) an organization that aims to restore ecosystems and reduce impacts of climate change by planting trees and spreading awareness about conservation. Her effortsContinue reading “Diversity in Ecology- Who is Dr. Wangari Maathai”

Open access is an international movement that aims to provide people with free online access to academic information. A publication is defined as open access when no financial, legal or technical barriers is involved in receiving their information. Open access is very important because it increases visibility and reuse of reliable academic research and inContinue reading “Understanding Open Access, Metadata and Creative Commons License”

Distinguishing between primary, secondary and tertiary literary sources is an essential skill for anyone in academia and can make or break a submitted paper. Questions stemming from it may circulate in the minds of many students (including me during 1st year) circulate around “is this a firsthand knowledge/ lab report or resource?”, “Is this aContinue reading “Distinguishing between primary secondary and tertiary resources”

Henry David Thoreau, born and raised Massachusetts, and from a young age loved all things nature. He studied how plant seeds are spread and came up with the theory of forest succession. Known as an observer and naturalist. He graduated from the prestigious Harvard in 1837. Thoreau publish his classic book, Walden, about the tiesContinue reading “Henry David Thoreau Ecologist (1817 – 1862)”

Crop rotation is one of the most widely used methods to promote sustainable agriculture. Crop rotation is accomplished by successively growing a series of different types of crops on the same plot of land.  When only one type of crop is grown on a piece of land, the soil eventually becomes depleted of certain nutrientsContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Crop Rotation”

Charles Darwin is one of the most famous biologists and naturalists in the world of science. He was born to Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin on February 12, 1809. Since his father Robert Darwin was a successful physician, so in general he belonged to a wealthy and respected family. He had five siblings with whomContinue reading “Charles Darwin (1809-1882)”

Let’s start off with explaining what is sustainable agriculture. As its name implies, it’s farming in a sustainable way. For decades industrial agriculture has been the mode of producing food in bulk for everyone. This systems consists of farms growing the same crops every year, utilizing fertilizers and pesticides which are bad for the environmentContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture”

Building off the Millennium Development Goals nearly 15 years later, in 2015 the U.N. established the current 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to find more sustainable ways to live on this earth we share. With the current methods of development – let’s not even get into how only a small fraction (<12%) of one-time-use-plastics isContinue reading “Goal 13 of the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Climate Action”