Teaching Scientific Forestry

The Scientific Basis of Forestry

Over the past two decades forestry in the United States has diverged into two approaches with quite different objectives and scientific priorities. The management focus of most industrial lands is on increasing productivity of wood fiber via plantations and various cultural tools, especially genetic selection, fertilization, and control of noncrop vegetation. Federal forest management has shift...

Teaching about scientific dissent from neo-darwinism.

References 1 Scott, E.C. and Branch, G. (2003) Evolution: what’s wrong with ‘teaching the controversy’. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18, 499–502 2 Damman, C. et al. (2002) Discover Biology, Sinauer Associates 3 Audesirk, T. et al. (2003) Life on Earth, Pearson Education 4 Pruitt, N.L. et al. (2000) BioInquiry Learning System 1.0: Making Connections in Biology, John Wiley and Sons 5 National Research Coun...

The pipeline. Scientific teaching in practice.

Scientific Teaching Targeting Faculty from Diverse Institutions

We offered four annual professional development workshops called STAR (for Scientific Teaching, Assessment, and Resources) modeled after the National Academies Summer Institute (SI) on Undergraduate Education in Biology. In contrast to the SI focus on training faculty from research universities, STAR's target was faculty from community colleges, 2-yr campuses, and public and private research un...

Teaching Scientific Ethics Effectively at Any Level

247 Volume 15, Number 2 a central role in science but also that science influences ethics. The book can be used as a guide for scientists to make good judgments about what is acceptable and not acceptable in science. It can also help scientists determine how they want to see their discipline develop in the future in light of scientific discoveries and technological advancements in an increasing...