Today in the School of the Environment:
In-Depth:
Summer / Fall 2023 – In This Issue:
Feature:
- Palouse Country Diary – Birds of Summer and a Mirror of Life
SoE Education & Research Reports:
- Video: Pygmy Rabbit Research
- Video: Invasive Asian Clams in the Columbia River
- Research Report: Invasive Asian Clams in the Columbia River
- Research Report: Stormwater Biofiltration Increases Survival of Coho Salmon Hatchlings
- Record Breaking: A Summer of Heat, Flooding, Fire, and Smoke
- Video: Dry Lightening, Rain, and Western Wildfires
In-Depth Studies (listen or read):
Just for Fun:
- CARTOON: First Dog on the Moon – Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin Interviews Climate Scientists
Book Reviews:
- The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush
- The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
Film Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% Tomatometer©
- Asteroid City by Wes Anderson
In Memoriam:
Spring, 2023 – In this Issue:
Today in SoE Science [your chatbot-free zone…]:
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Today’s Philosophical Questions:
If chatbots tell each other jokes, do they laugh? Does it matter?We take a deep dive into some of the philosophical perspectives and bigger issues with ChatGPT and the use of AI, large language models (LLMs), and automated text generation/writing by sharing several in-depth thought pieces written by others (real people).
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT – from the New York Times
The Stochastic Parrot – from “You Are Not a Parrot” by Elizabeth Weil, New York Magazine
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Geology Today: 100 Million Years in 20 Seconds & ‘Phosphogeddon‘
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In-Depth Ecology: Living with Leopards in India & Caterpillar Catastrophe
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Palouse Country Diary – Birds of a Feather
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Opinion: On the Whiteness of Conservation and the Audubon Society
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SoE Research: Hare Today and Gone Tomorrow
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SoE in National Geographic: Moth-Eating Grizzy Bears
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Special Essay: The Endling – by Christina Rivera Cogswell, from Orion Magazine
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Photo Exhibit: Hang Gliding With Pelicans
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Just for Fun: Pop Quiz – Barking Up the Right Tree
Winter 2023 – In this Issue:
Feature:
SoE Education & Research Reports:
- Climate Refuge? Canada Lynx in Glacier National Park
- Canary in the Forest? Dieback of Western Redcedar in the Pacific Northwest
- Dmitri Kalashnikov Wins AGU & AMS Awards
- Bears, Berries & Woodland Debris
- Human Disturbance & the Landscape Ecology of Fear
In-Depth Ecology:
Art, Literature, Photography:
Fall 2022 – In this Issue:
Editor’s Choice: Bug Splat Ecology & Science Pizza
SoE Special Reports:
Climate Anxiety in Environmental Science Students
Today’s Lab Assignment: Take a Bath
SoE Education & Research Reports:
- Bug Splat Ecology
- Droning on in Higher Education
- Dams, Reservoirs, & Methane Emissions
- Watching the Trees Die
- Are Bears Really Carnivores?
- Dry Lightening & Western Wildfires
- Survival of Mule Deer Fawns in SE Washington
- Air Pollution from Western Wildfires
- How Cars Kill Salmon
- Generating Science Enthusiasm in High School Students
- Video Interview: Western Wildfires Affect Midwestern Severe Weather
- Tipping Points for Pacific Northwest Forests?
- Landscape Ecology & Conservation of Wild Cats and Large-Mammals
- Phantom Forests: Why Global Tree Plantings Fail
- How Heavy Is a Forest? And Why Does It Matter?
- North Atlantic Right Whale Nearly Extinct
- What is Cop27 (and why does it matter to you?)
- Sightseeing on the Road to Hell
- Past 8 Years the Hottest Ever Recorded
- 20 Climate Photos That Changed the World
- Platypus, Be Dammed
- Exploding a Carbon Time Bomb: Congo Peatlands
- Geoscience (listen): Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
- Must-Watch Video: Exploding Plants
- Epicurious? What Does 36,000 Year-Old Bison Taste Like?
- Darwin’s Orchids and Drunk Wasps
- Rediscovery of Frogs Thought to Be Extinct
- Discovery of a Living Fossil on the California Coast
- Morbid Curiosity: The Difference Between Possum and Opossum
- Are You Smarter Than a Slime Mold? (be careful how you answer…)
- Lost and Found: Rescuing a Rare Oak
- Can Bumble Bees Play Soccer?
Essays & Natural History:
Margaret Renkl – from The New York Times:
At Summer’s End, a Moment of Wild Surprise
From the WSU Arboretum:
On the Controversy Over Milkweed & Monarch Butterflies
Art / Literature / Photography
What We’re Reading (and why):
– How to Speak Whale
– Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
– Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
– The Soul of an Octopus
– Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Photo Exhibit:
Study #23 in Mourning Doves & ‘Pigeons’
In-Depth Studies:
Elizabeth Kolbert – Climate Change From A To Z
Bill McKibben – Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It