Author Archives: Scott Smedley

At the close of Week 2 (Sunday, 2 Nov.), we see the gap among leading teams narrowing, as the Bucs close in on the Thirsty Thursdays.  Collectively, you folks are doing amazingly well with a total of close to 50,000 image categorizations … Continue reading →

This fall seven teams of students from Trinity’s introductory biology course are competing in a Wildlife CSI contest.  At the close of Week 1, “Thirsty (for Knowledge) Thursdays” has made their presence know, but at this early stage things can … Continue reading →

The Nature Conservancy’s blog Cool Green Science recently highlighted Wildlife CSI.  Check out the story at http://blog.nature.org/science/2014/10/14/citizen-science-tuesday-wildlife-csi/

Large producers of food waste in Massachusetts now must compost.  Check out this New England public radio story:  http://nepr.net/news/2014/10/15/not-in-our-landfill-massachusetts-ban-on-food-waste/

A recent study has documented how African vultures when searching for food, carrion that often occurs in unpredictable locations, rely on visually locating eagles that have already found the food.  Click here for further description of this work. Our research … Continue reading →

Our pilot project looking at veterans’ responses to wildlife images from ecological research runs through the end of September.   With good participation by local veterans in this pilot, we hope to convince the National Science Foundation to fund an on-line … Continue reading →

Crickets eat your compost, and you eat the nutritious crickets.  To see how visit: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28969505 .

Changes to landscapes due to human activities can affect scavengers.  Power line towers in relatively treeless sagebrush ecosystems are preferred nesting sites for ravens, birds which are both predators and scavengers.  The addition of these artificial nesting locations appears linked … Continue reading →

The Veterans’ Citizen Science Pilot Project was the subject of the July 21 “Sandbox Chronicles.”  This program on Citizen Television in New Haven (Channel 96) focuses on the transition of Iraq and Afghan veterans.   Video of the show will … Continue reading →

Our Veterans’ Citizen Science Pilot was featured on the July 18th airing of “Voice of the Veteran” on WNHU, hosted by Gabe Kautzner and Justin Furuare.  This show is dedicated to making veterans aware of resources available to aid their transition … Continue reading →