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This is the first report of egg, larval, and juvenile energetic content in crinoids. Florometra serratissima (AH Clark) produces a nonfeeding larva with an unusually low level of parental investment per offspring. The mean egg volume was... more
This is the first report of egg, larval, and juvenile energetic content in crinoids. Florometra serratissima (AH Clark) produces a nonfeeding larva with an unusually low level of parental investment per offspring. The mean egg volume was 7.42 x 10 super(6) mu m super(3). ...
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... FISSIPAROUS POPULATION OF THE SEA STAR STEPHANASTERIAS ALBULA (Stimpson) PHILIP V. MLADENOV, SALLY F. CARSON' Biology Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick EOA SCO, Canada and CHARLES W. WALKER... more
... FISSIPAROUS POPULATION OF THE SEA STAR STEPHANASTERIAS ALBULA (Stimpson) PHILIP V. MLADENOV, SALLY F. CARSON' Biology Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick EOA SCO, Canada and CHARLES W. WALKER Department of ...
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The ocean has a vast capacity for absorbing heat and carbon dioxide, seriously threatening local habitats for marine life. Challenges in connecting wider society with this crisis may originate in its poor visibility for non-specialists:... more
The ocean has a vast capacity for absorbing heat and carbon dioxide, seriously threatening local habitats for marine life. Challenges in connecting wider society with this crisis may originate in its poor visibility for non-specialists: the data can be inaccessible and hard to relate to. In a series of immersive community workshops, participants created artworks combining recent physical ocean climate data recorded in Otago, New Zealand, with impacts on local species from published studies. We found that crafting visual stories was a powerful way to distill greater meaning from complex climate data, and engage participants with harmful changes underway locally.
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Citizen science aims to bridge the gap between science and society by engaging people in understanding the process of science. This is needed to foster informed democratic involvement of critical, environmentally informed citizens. Can... more
Citizen science aims to bridge the gap between science and society by engaging people in understanding the process of science. This is needed to foster informed democratic involvement of critical, environmentally informed citizens. Can these aspirations be facilitated by school-based citizen science that offers opportunity to engage scientifically with environmental issues at a scale with local relevance? This is tested through application of Marine Metre Squared (Mm2), a citizen science initiative for long-term monitoring of the New Zealand intertidal zone. Through direct observation and “hands-on” engagement, participants are involved in place-based learning that connects them with nature. Strong interest from teachers and uptake into school programmes has been key to its success in collecting long term biodiversity data. Through facilitated delivery, the project also has the capacity to meet school curriculum goals and develop the environmental science citizenship capabilities of...
Spawning of Luidia foliolata in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada. occurs in spring. Ova are transparent and about 150pm in diameter. The first cleavage occurs approximately 3hr after fertilization at ca. 100C. The embryo develops... more
Spawning of Luidia foliolata in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada. occurs in spring. Ova are transparent and about 150pm in diameter. The first cleavage occurs approximately 3hr after fertilization at ca. 100C. The embryo develops into a bipinnaria after a wrinkled blastula stage. Metamorphosis takes place about 4 mo after fertilization, without the larva's passing through a brachiolaria stage. The fu11-grown bipinnaria is 2.5mm long and has five pairs of bipinnaria arms. At metamorphosis the larval part is absorbed into the asteroid rudirnent, Juveniles are about 730"m in diameter. They have five aums, each bearing two pairs of tube-feet. The present observations show that L. foliolata undergoes a non-brachiolarian type of development, as do all species ofLuidia previously studied.
Children often learn information in a context that is vastly different to the one in which they are asked to recall or use that information. Despite this, little is known about the effect of context change on children’s recall of... more
Children often learn information in a context that is vastly different to the one in which they are asked to recall or use that information. Despite this, little is known about the effect of context change on children’s recall of educational information. Here, 197 5- and 6-year-olds were taught the same interactive lesson in their classroom or on a field trip and were tested after a 1- to 2-day and 6-month delay. The effect of learning context was more pronounced for older children, wherein the field trip yielded more autobiographically rich memories than the classroom, but they learned a similar amount of scientific content in both contexts. Furthermore, especially for older children who learned in their classrooms, their autobiographical memory was predictive of the amount of scientific information they recalled. The opportunity to mentally reinstate the learning context generally facilitated children’s recollection of autobiographical information, but older children were more ade...
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No University Outreach, including the sociology internship featured in this article, occurs in isolation. There are no greenfield sites. Community stakeholder expectations are generally well established and if educational opportunities... more
No University Outreach, including the sociology internship featured in this article, occurs in isolation. There are no greenfield sites. Community stakeholder expectations are generally well established and if educational opportunities for community-engaged learning are to be sustained they need to be cherished by the academic stakeholders involved. Each partnership between course co-ordinator, students as interns, and community manager must be effectively and sensitively managed. Sustainability of opportunity is especially important in a small city with limited opportunities. This article brings together an internship course coordinator, a teaching and learning specialist and two community-programme managers who agreed to host two teams of interns in this internship programme. Together they use their experience to reflect on potential disjuncture between academics' teaching interests, student learning opportunities and community needs and on how to co-manage this complex relati...
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... FISSIPAROUS POPULATION OF THE SEA STAR STEPHANASTERIAS ALBULA (Stimpson) PHILIP V. MLADENOV, SALLY F. CARSON' Biology Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick EOA SCO, Canada and CHARLES W. WALKER... more
... FISSIPAROUS POPULATION OF THE SEA STAR STEPHANASTERIAS ALBULA (Stimpson) PHILIP V. MLADENOV, SALLY F. CARSON' Biology Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick EOA SCO, Canada and CHARLES W. WALKER Department of ...
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Children often learn information in a context that is vastly different to the one in which they are asked to recall or use that information. Despite this, little is known about the effect of context change on children's recall of... more
Children often learn information in a context that is vastly different to the one in which they are asked to recall or use that information. Despite this, little is known about the effect of context change on children's recall of educational information. Here, 197 5-and 6-year-olds were taught the same interactive lesson in their classroom or on a field trip and were tested after a 1-to 2-day and 6-month delay. The effect of learning context was more pronounced for older children, wherein the field trip yielded more autobiographically rich memories than the classroom, but they learned a similar amount of scientific content in both contexts. Furthermore, especially for older children who learned in their classrooms, their autobiographical memory was predictive of the amount of scientific information they recalled. The opportunity to mentally reinstate the learning context generally facilitated children's recollection of autobiographical information, but older children were mo...
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This is the first report of egg, larval, and juvenile energetic content in crinoids. Florometra serratissima (AH Clark) produces a nonfeeding larva with an unusually low level of parental investment per offspring. The mean egg volume was... more
This is the first report of egg, larval, and juvenile energetic content in crinoids. Florometra serratissima (AH Clark) produces a nonfeeding larva with an unusually low level of parental investment per offspring. The mean egg volume was 7.42 x 10 super(6) mu m super(3). ...