This page will eventually become a collection of my reviews of Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in the Bahamas. The links lead to a Science and Perspective copy of the EIA as published, then a link to my comments on the EIA as submitted to the developer and the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection. I will also include a brief summary of the EIA. Enjoy.

  • A riddle

    What is the farthest we can be from something while being as close to it as possible? The other side of a wall. -Leno Davis January 31, 2018

  • Feb 9 application deadline for Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS)

    Ancilleno Davis, PhD. Candidate Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology- Miami University, Oxford Ohio The University of Michigan invites outstanding individuals to apply for the Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS). This program is designed to encourage rising seniors, recent B.A.s and terminal Master’s students from diverse cultural, economic, geographic, and ethnic backgrounds to consider…

  • Audubon, Earth Day and Haiti

    Thinking about what it means when someone calls a Caribbean nation a “shithole” (sorry for the profanity, but the word is presidential now). Not long ago, I gave a series of presentations telling ornithologists and bird enthusiasts about the race, gender and nationality of the history of ornithology. One of the most profound realizations I…

  • robbed

    It is a convenient trick to rob a person of all they have, even their own body, and then mock them for their poverty, and blame it on their nature. -Adam Serwer, writer and editor

  • Citizen science power and challenges

    Today (January 8 2018), a powerful image was shared with me via Facebook. Ken Kaufman posted screenshots of the distribution of Killdeer records on the island of Bermuda for January 2017 and January 2018, highlighting the huge difference in maximum numbers. 12 in 2017 versus 500 in 2018. In his post, he describes and discusses…