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Habitatnews 2003-02: Tuesday, 11th February 2003
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Nature-related news for the busy Singaporean.
Information and archives at: <http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg>
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Contents
Unlike Habitatnews, the content is mainly seminar announcements of a
technical or semi-technical nature, which are usually held during office
hours. These originate mainly from:
- NUS Dept. Biological Sciences Department Seminars,
- NUS Dept. Biological Sciences Biodiversity & Ecology Journal Club
- (umbrella for Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research),
- (umbrella for Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research),
- NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI),
- NUS Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP)
- NUS Dept. Geography
- NTU (mainly NIE)
- National Parks Board.
In this two weeks alone, seven seminars were announced, ranging from
mosquito eating spiders to elephants (see below)! Details can be viewed
at http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/bejc – the webpage of the NUS DBS Biodiversity
& Ecology Journal Club is host to ecotax announcements.
A secondary objective is to occasionally circulate interesting news from
journals, technical/semi-technical webpages and mailing lists, and
conference or job announcements.
Like Habitatnews, Ecotax was started in 1998, but as a restricted list to
circulate information about research visitors/projects to encourage
interaction. It's primary usefulness now is in seminar announcements and
this may be of some use to interested members of the public hence the list
was open, like Habitatnews to anyone, in 2002.
To subscribe, simply send a blank email to: ecotax-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
"Stirring the Pot -- taxonomic meddling with commercial crustaceans."
by Peter Davie, Queensland Museum, Australia
"Blood and brains: the mind of a mosquito-eating jumping spider."
by Robert Jackson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
[MEM Public Seminar] "Leaping into the fray" - An analyis of the motivation,
methods and propriety of the conservation and public education efforts at
Chek Jawa, Pulau Ubin by researchers and volunteers of the Raffles Museum
of Biodiversity Research, NUS.
by N. Sivasothi, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS
"Tiny tusks and horns: secondary sexual characters in jumping spiders
(Araneae: Salticidae)".
by Simon D. Pollard, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
[DBS seminar] "Conserving the Asian Elephant in Sri Lanka"
by Charles Santiapillai, Deputy Chairman, IUCN/SSC Elephant Specialist Group
"Why do kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) eat what they eat?"
by Astrid van Meeuwen, Department of Conservation, New Zealand.
Details at: http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/bejc
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