bruna-lab-outreach

Monday, 10 August 2015: A surprise message from President Obama greeted the ecological community at the opening scientific plenary of the 100th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Last night this came across my twitter feed: Stay engaged—The Brazilian Amazon region had shrunk to just 18% of its size. http://t.co/4y6V75adit by @lucysiegle pic.twitter.com/VE4EZ5ErTM — Brazil Character Lab (@scharlab) August 9, 2015 I nearly fell over when I saw that, so I clicked the link and landed on a column in The Guardian* (UK) by Lucy Siegel in which I was surprised to read this (emphasis mine):

Our lab members' interests range from trying to understand the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon for plants to how international collaboration influences the impact of research papers. Below are some of what we consider our major accomplishments in four areas of research, with links description of the results pdf’s of the articles.

There is a petition on Change.org to honor UF’s Academic stars the same way it does it’s sports heroes. Here is the link; the text is reproduced below.  The University of Florida community is so proud of our Heisman Trophy Winners that we have honored them with statues outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

[caption id=“attachment_1355” align=“aligncenter” width=“284”] Ernane Vieira Neto wins ESA’s Braun Award (best poster Award at ESA meeting). I had to brag about it because he was too embarrassed to do so himself.

“Publicação científica e rede de interações de autoria na America Latina” 2 de junho de 2014 – 11h Auditorio 2 do Centro Didático Dr. Emilio Bruna, editor chefe da Biotropica, estudou a publicação dos melhores jornais da área de Ecologia e descreve o perfil das autorias e as mudanças de produtividade que ocorreram em 18 países da America Latina nas últimas décadas.

A few months ago I decided to revamp my lab’s webpage and moved to Wordpress as the content management system. To get started I chose the Oxygen theme from Alien WP - for a free theme it’s quite functional and stylish out of the box, Alien WP has great customer support, and it’s an easy theme with which to learn the basics of WP.

Last week as part of UF’s Science Communications Academy we met with Steve Orlando, Director of UF Media Relations. He gave some great tips for interacting with journalists, which I post here for my fellow students in the course.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Arte e ciência nem sempre caminham juntas, mas um projeto novo da Universidade da Florida (UF) desafia esta afirmação. Estudantes do Instituto de Ciências Agrícolas e da Vida (IFAS) recentemente trabalharam em conjunto com o Museu de Arte Samuel P.

[caption id=“attachment_740” align=“alignright” width=“770”] At the Natural Areas Teaching Lab on the University of Florida campus, Emilio Bruna, a UF associate professor of wildlife ecology and conservation, left, and graduate students Shelly Johnson and Matt Palumbo, display the Android app Bruna’s fall 2010 plant-animal interaction class created and recently released.