Archive for October, 2004

Sail-away

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Here’s a photo for you Phildo!

Bourgeois environmental revolution?

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Here’s an article from ABC online. The ‘latte sippers’ seem to be doing some good work at the moment, and all while kicking back and drinking coffee. Sounds like a pretty nice deal to me.
I guess it’s really what all the post-doc students here at JCU Tropical Biology are trying to do; save the world [...]

Update

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

I thought I should update, seeing as I haven’t for a few days.
I’ve been working pretty hard at my uni stuff, as I’ve got a field trip coming up soon and need to secure funding, volunteers, vehicles etc… and the come back and do a presentation straght away! I’ve been reading Complexity which is a [...]

The leaders of tommorrow

Friday, October 1st, 2004

I’ve been marking some first year ecology papers. The students, or ‘leaders of tommorrow’ as I like to call them, were asked to talk about a) the process of succession on new ground formed by lava flows, and b) the greenhouse effect and it’s ecological importance.
Here are the top-seven answers:
7. “when an erruption occurs, [...]