Science and Perspective

A thought on sustainability today: we cannot manage what we do not monitor. The path toward sustainability requires us to collect data on how and why we use our resources. How often do you check your fuel use? What about your employee’s emotional state? How much waste you generate? Let’s look for sustainability in everything…

One of the major costs of conducting science in the Bahamas is in technical expertise, the cost of human labor. Essential to the cost of labor is the cost of living. How much can you pay a Bahamian scientist, to provide them a living wage? What minimum value would allow them to dedicate themselves to…

If you work with geospatial data and open source code, you have probably been hacking your way through the internet, youtube, stackexchange etc. to find good tutorials with clear well-written examples. This is it. Dr. Endsley does an excellent job of setting up the problems he is dealing with, the writing is clear but not…

As instructors in gate keeping courses, some believe it is their duty to slam that gate in the faces of as many students as possible. Some of us are propping the gate open, cracking Windows and unlocking the back door. Most importantly we are making copies of the keys and giving them to our students

I just clicked send. I sent the latest draft of my dissertation to my full committee. I sent it to colleagues who have seen me grow up through science and ornithology. I put it out there. quite honestly, it was the hardest button I have ever pushed and I have quite possibly made a million…