Part I: What is Observational Ecology Ecology, or Earth Science, is a term that was most likely coined by the legendary observer of nature, artist, Darwinian scholar, hopeless romantic, and one of my personal heroes, Ernst Haeckel. Like all human endeavors, it begins with intentional observation – including the use of […]
The compounding impacts of anthropogenic (man caused) climate change pose the most significant and immediate threat to the wellbeing of communities in the Desert Southwest, and indeed throughout the developing world. In the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) many coastal communities, including the eight communities of the far northern […]