DNA Day: Get Your Sing and Dance On

April 25, 2011

A small collection of songs that I’ve been rocking out to for DNA day…

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On the SciAm Guest Blog: Seafood at Risk

April 21, 2011

In case you missed it yesterday, my article Seafood at Risk: Dispersed Oil Poses a Long-Term Threat appeared on the Scientific American Guest Blog.  It’s been one year since the Deepwater Horizon disaster first began, the federal waters have all been opened and the government is giving the all-clear to seafood from the Gulf of [...]

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National Park Week: The Stats

April 20, 2011

While interning at the USGS this summer, I assisted with an article for the DOI Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes newsletter on protected areas.  Since it’s National Park Week, it seemed fitting to share some of the things I learned, and today was the perfect day to do so in light of one of the [...]

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National Park Week: Acadia National Park

April 19, 2011

Maine may as well be my home away from home.  I’ve gone up just about every year since I was a baby, at LEAST once a year (but usually end up going 3 times a year), and I always go to the same spots.  Each year, the big trip in August takes me to Mount [...]

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National Park Week 2011

April 16, 2011

Today marks the first day of National Park Week, which runs until April 24th.  This year’s focus “Health Parks, Healthy People” highlights the connection between human and environmental health and the vital role America’s national parks play in both.  There’s free admission all week long, so head on out to one of the 394 national [...]

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Three Blind Mice No More

April 15, 2011

Who could forget the childhood nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice”?  Those poor little mice that were terrorized by the farmer’s wife no longer have to suffer from blindness, thanks to Alan Horsager, a neuroscientist at the Institute of Genetic Medicine at the University of Southern California, and his use of gene therapy.  The treatment is [...]

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