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Author Archives: Peter Hanley
Dr. Sewall presents on an emerging disease affecting bats
Dr. Sewall has presented his research on white-nose syndrome, an emerging disease leading to severe population declines in hibernating bat species in North America, to a research symposium sponsored by the Northeast Bat Working Group. The research, presented by Dr. … Continue reading
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Dr. Sewall named to World Commission on Protected Areas
Dr. Sewall has joined the World Commission on Protected Areas, which provides technical advice in support of the establishment and effective management of a world-wide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas. These protected areas, including parks, reserves, natural … Continue reading
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Kim Reuter presents at conservation conference
On October 13th, 2011, Kim Reuter presented a poster on “Methods for Dugong Conservation in Developing Countries” at the Student Conference on Conservation Science in New York City. In the research, which she completed with collaborators in the international non-governmental … Continue reading
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Rachel Maddaluna presents at Research Symposium
Rachel Maddaluna presented a poster entitled “Mitigation of Climate Change and Species Loss through Avoided Deforestation” at the College of Science and Technology’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Rachel presented this timely research, completed using global datasets and geographic information systems software, … Continue reading
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Kim Reuter presents at Graduate Research Symposium
Kim has presented at the Temple University Graduate Fellows Research Symposium, an interdisicplinary symposium for graduate students with fellowships from across the university to share research findings. She gave an oral presentation on her research on “The effect of gametes … Continue reading
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New publication on conservation planning in the journal Conservation Biology
Dr. Sewall and collaborators have published a new article in Conservation Biology, the top global conservation journal. In the article, called “Reorienting systematic conservation assessment for effective conservation planning,” they propose a new approach to assessing conservation priorities that integrates … Continue reading
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Kim Reuter wins NSF Predoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to incoming doctoral student Kim Reuter, who has won a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! These prestigious fellowships, awarded after an extremely competitive national selection process, support some of the nation’s most promising early-career scientists in their graduate studies. … Continue reading
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Kim Reuter joins the lab
We are excited to welcome Kim Reuter, a new graduate student, to our lab group starting Fall Semester 2011. Kim will be pursuing her doctorate here in the Biology Department at Temple University; her research focus will be conservation biology … Continue reading
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New proposal for sustainability education at Temple University
The Advisory Committee for the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability, of which Dr. Sewall was part, has completed a proposal to establish a new certificate program in sustainability. The program would be less intensive than a minor, but would encourage … Continue reading
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Outreach to Philadelphia area high school science teachers
Dr. Sewall led a teacher training on ecological interaction networks, with a special focus on mutualistic plant-pollinator networks, to high school science teachers in the Philadelphia area on August 8-9, 2011. The training was designed to assist local teachers to … Continue reading