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August 23, 2010
I was on a one-day deep sea fishing trip off the coast of Southern California and the topic of diving mammals came up as we were watching sea lions swim around our boat. They must have been attracted to the same school of fish we were trying to catch. I must admit they were more successful at…
August 18, 2010
I love YouTube! If I could just sit and watch it for eight hours a day, seven days a week, I could probably win a Nobel Prize in Comparative Physiology.
When you get a Nobel Prize, you get the prize itself, a diploma (as though I need another diploma), and of course the Swedish Kroners. I pledge…
August 15, 2010
I love fishing! I just returned from a weekend fishing trip with my family where we caught these beautiful trout (see photo).
Speaking of fish, I just finished listening to a LifeLines podcast from The American Physiological Society in which Barbara Block from Stanford University discussed her…
August 14, 2010
Photo: Blue crab being monitored for metabolism using a respirometer, courtesy of Louis and Karen Burnett.
Based on information presented at the Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World conference, August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado.
Louis Burnett,…
August 13, 2010
Based on information presented at the Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World conference, August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado.
Photo:Budgerigars killed by a heat wave on a ranch in western Australia in 2009 courtesy of Blair Wolf.
Blair Wolf, an associate…
August 12, 2010
The last night of the Comparative Physiology meeting I listened to the neatest lecture on visualizing change in animals given by Dr. Elizabeth Brainerd at Brown University. She provided a wonderful synopsis of imaging techniques throughout history and spoke about using satellites to image large…
August 11, 2010
I just could not wait to write about a seminar that I listened to at the recent Comparative Physiology conference in Westminster, CO. The topic was "paleophysiology". You got it, the study of physiology in extinct animals! Dr. Thomasz Owerkowicz, an Assistant Project Scientist with Dr. James Hicks…
August 9, 2010
Based on information presented at the Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World conference, August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado.
Inna Sokolova, associate professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, studies the affect of high…
August 8, 2010
Based on information presented at the Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World conference, August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado.
Jessica Hellmann and her research team at Notre Dame have conducted a series of studies in which manipulating the temperature of…
August 7, 2010
Based on information presented at the Global Change
and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a
Changing World conference,
August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado
"In trying to predict how species will respond to climate change caused by global warming, researchers and scientists are turning…
August 2, 2010
This is my first blog, so bear with me. I asked a friend of mine how I should begin it, and he said, "tell them why they should care about what you will write about." Fair enough.
I teach at a major university in the west. My area of specialty is the comparative physiology of glucose and fatty…