Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Search

Concisus Vitae

GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in OpenLab2009.

Online interviews with GrrlScientist: Kolibri Expeditions, ScienceOnline09, Nature Blog Network and ScienceBlogs.

GrrlScientist's banner was designed by graphic artist, Jeff Hebert, whose other work can be viewed here.

Nominate your science, nature or medical writing to Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the Public) blog carnival using the widget above.

Worthy Causes to $upport

Help This $cientist-Blogger

Meters and Counters

Deep archives

More than 330 articles on topics ranging from avian influenza to evolution of birds

Rotating Drinking Pals

Rotating Reciprocal Links

Reading/Viewing

I've Contributed To

Blog Bling

Bookmarking/Networking

Subscribe to updates

My Little Radio Station (Music)

News and Talk

Miscellaneous

AgriBusiness:

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Loving Our Oceans to Death

Seafood aficionados, such as me, are loving our oceans to death, and worse, most of us aren't even aware of this tragic fact.

Posted on February 20, 2008 4:15 PM • 4 Comments

Pathogens Causing HoneyBee Deaths?

This viral+pathogen hypothesis is more credible than the cell phone hypothesis.

Posted on April 26, 2007 1:30 PM • 1 Comments

Toxic Food

This is an article that you should read about our nation's food supply written by Eric Schlosser.

Posted on December 11, 2006 11:59 AM • 1 Comments

Declining Pollinator Populations Spell Disaster for Agribusiness

it's more than just the birds and the bees ..

Posted on October 30, 2006 8:59 AM • 5 Comments

French Bird Flu Frenzy

Is this the beginning of an international wild bird massacre, triggered by gross misinformation?

Posted on March 7, 2006 10:04 AM • 1 Comments

Avian Influenza: A Story About Industrial Fowl Play?

A new report by GRAIN (PDF linked) shows that the poultry farming industry is smack-dab in the middle of this growing bird flu problem, NOT wild birds. So what should be done about this?

Posted on March 6, 2006 11:59 AM • 8 Comments • 3 TrackBacks

Tsunamis and Mangroves: The Shrimp Connection

The aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami is beyond comprehension, causing us to ask, 'What could have been done to reduce this terrible loss of life?' Since tsunamis are rare in the Indian Ocean (the last significant one was in 1883) and because of the relative poverty of most nations in this region, it is understandable that a tsunami warning system does not exist for the Indian Ocean. Yet even in the absence of a tsunami warning system, the resulting deaths and damages could have been mitigated if one simple precaution had been observed; stop destroying mangrove forests. [Nominated for 2005 Koufax "Best Individual Post" Award].

First Name:	Last Name:
Address:
City:	State:	Zip Code:
Email: