09 February 2012
Gulf Spill Spurs Student's Restoration Research
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations
A College of Natural Resources doctoral student, deeply influenced by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is helping to restore the Gulf’s blackened marshes with a project that could also aid threatened ecosystems nationwide, including in Northern California.
Thomas Azwell is testing bagasse-filled growth tubes as a clean medium for marsh plants in the Bay Jimmy Restoration Project in Louisiana. (Photo by Gavin Garrison)
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17 January 2012
Western Bluebirds Provide Pest Control
By Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan
The Bluebird of Happiness has a new gig. Now it's the Bluebird of Ecosystem Services.
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Posted by Ann Guy at 5:11
17 January 2012
Study: Eat More Often, Weigh Less
Reuters
Jan 13 - Girls who ate frequent meals and snacks put on less weight and gained less on their waistlines over a decade than those who only ate a couple of times a day, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers, who tracked more than 2,000 girls for the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, said that smaller, more frequent meals and snacks may have kept girls satisfied for longer, preventing them from over-eating.
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03 January 2012
Scientists Try Tricking Vineyard-Killing Bacteria
By Beth Mole, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Every grapevine in the 28-acre Bonny Doon Vineyard had to be ripped from the earth and torched in 1994. New vines might have faced the same fate the following year. Instead, owner Randall Grahm, numb from years of battling an incurable plague, sold his whole vineyard of dead and dying Syrah, Viognier and Marsanne grapes.
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Posted by Ann Guy at 7:30
15 December 2011
Close-Up View of Science History Opens Christmas Eve
By Ann Brody Guy
Invoking the premise of the classic holiday film It’s a Wonderful Life—that small, chance meetings set in motion life-changing events—it follows that the world would have missed out on a unique piece of science history if microscope aficionados Orville Golub and Steve Ruzin had never crossed paths.
But thanks to that meeting, and the years-long friendship and collaboration that followed, the public will get an eyeful of optic history beginning Dec. 24, when the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Museum presents A World Examined: Microscopes from the Age of Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century, an exhibit featuring a selection of antique microscopes from the Golub Collection at the University of California, Berkeley.
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