I'm sorry, did you say free?!?!?

 
"Oxford University Press makes conservation biology textbook by some of the world's most prominent ecologists and conservation biologists available as free download."

Getcher FREE amazing conservation biology text HERE. Edited and/or contributions by oh, you know, little, obscure folks, like, say, Paul Ehrlich, Daniel Simberloff, Stewart Pimm, David Wilcove, and Thomas Lovejoy.

(image from the http://www.mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html)

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How fast can I click on "full text"?!?

Answer:

Pretty FREAKIN' fast.

(heart still pounding)

AWESOME. I think maybe I'll set up a schedule of reading it for myself (biobabbler syllabus) so I actually read it, then maybe report the coolest things here?

Whattaya think?

So, let's hear it for FREE EDUCATION from the MASTERS!!!

(sorry, SO into democracy, esp. re: education, and am officially a conservation biologist, so this is kind of making my head explode.)

OMG so excited...

  
Officially registered for the George Wright Society Conference, so apparently I'm really going. Exciting! March 14-18, and I even signed up for a field trip, so should be very fun!

Only happens every 2 years, so I am always waiting with bated breath. It's a major dose of park/open space preservation edification and HUGEly social, tho' I know very few folks from the west going, this year (many NPSers living under a travel ceiling that's VERY low).

These things are very exciting for a chatty biologist working largely from her home office in the sticks. I've already started trying on outfits; I get to dress up in real professional people clothes and everything! (says the woman who is presently wearing jeans, trail running shoes, a black viva la evolution t-shirt (courtesy of AAAS), brown sweatshirt (ooh, just realized it's on backwards), a down jacket, and a bright blue fuzzy hat. STYLIN'!)

Spent some quality time at Zappos yesterday, if you know what I mean...

=)

Are there any meetings you get to go to, now and then, that you get excited about? DO tell. Any pre-meeting rituals? Mid-meeting survival strategies/traditions?

=)

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