Environmental scientists have come to use the term ‘tipping point’ as shorthand for the time, or set of conditions, at which a rapid phase shift in an ecological system commences. Nearly always, they talk about phase shifts from a preferred… Read More »Tipping Points – There Are Good Ones Too
A few years ago, in another life, I was listening to an M.Sc. student provide a progress report to her advisory committee. She was tackling the problem of whether there were two, or just one genetically distinct population of sea-run… Read More »On Knowing Your Ecosystem – A Coral Reef is Much More than A Coral and Some Fish
The Fort McMurray fire The Canadian news this past week has been filled with harrowing tales of the plight of people caught up in the Fort McMurray wildfire, and reports have spilled over into the international press. It began the… Read More »Wildfire – Just One More Gift from Climate Change.