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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 has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived here) and was part of the original invited group of 14 "SciBlings" -- her only claim to fame. If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, please help her pay her living expenses by clicking on the Paypal button below and by voting for her to be the official blogger on a month long adventure in Antarctica. If you read an essay that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for OpenLab2009.
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Category: Streaming videos
This informative video discusses the conservation of one of my research birds, the Rimatara (Kuhl's) Lory, Vini kuhlii, known by the natives as the 'Ura. Not only is this bird's story interesting, but it also exemplifies the complications and challenges of conserving any endangered species.
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Category: Streaming videos
This informative video discusses the conservation of one of my research birds, the Rimatara (Kuhl's) Lory, Vini kuhlii, known by the natives as the 'Ura. Not only is this bird's story interesting, but it also exemplifies the complications and challenges of conserving any endangered species.
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Category: Streaming videos
This informative video discusses the conservation of one of my research birds, the Rimatara (Kuhl's) Lory, Vini kuhlii, known by the natives as the 'Ura. Not only is this bird's story interesting, but it also exemplifies the complications and challenges of conserving any endangered species.
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One of the rarest forest birds in the world, the critically endangered 'Alala, or Hawaiian Crow, Corvus hawaiiensis, was awarded $14.3 million in conservation funding over the next five years, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 5:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: South Pacific Islands
An international team of scientists report on the new species of animals they discovered on an unexplored region of Papua New Guinea
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 4:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'll bet none of you knew that I have been an avid, devoted aquarist, and this essay describes one of my favorite fish species to keep
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 1:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Image of the Day
Here's an astonishing image of a newly discovered seahorse, which is one of the smallest seahorses in the world
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Category: Streaming videos
this is a wonderful trailer from a film that will soon be released, and which i was invited to screen!
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 8:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Can some lineages evolve into new species more rapidly than others? According to this paper, yes, they can
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Category: Image of the Day
Goodbye to 2008
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