Ex-situ conservation

number of research programs, in an effort to produce these technologies. At Congress’s 1975 request to evaluate the technology required to “make possible a new generation of fuel-efficient aircraft,” by the 1980s, NASA established the Aircraft Fuel Conservation Technology Task Force. In its report released during the 1975 Congressional Hearing, NASA outlined six programs in propulsion, aerodynamics and structure, all aimed to reduce fuel consumption without degrading the…

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is by Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert is an American journalist, observer, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker. The Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015; I chose this nonfiction book because I hadn’t heard of the concept of a sixth extinction. I had previously learned of multiple extinctions that occurred in the Cretaceous, Ordovician, Permian, and Triassic-Jurassic periods, but I became curious just by the thought of what Kolbert meant by…

of energy via waves, using applied conservation of energy principles. Before this class, I have learned about the law of conservation of energy in PHYS221 with Micheal Greiner. We learned that energy is always conserved and the initial energy of the system should be the same as the final energy of the system. In other words the total energy of an isolated system constant if it is non dissipative meaning there are no energy loss. We did not relate this conservation of energy law with waves, but…

The industrial revolution and the urbanization of America began separating and alienating people from nature for a plethora of reasons. Industrialization was making people’s life more convenient, they no longer needed to rely so heavily on being self reliant because there was now other people and machines doing their work for them. America had an abundance of wild scenery, but few works of architecture and art (Sear 49). The Europeans sought to change this in their own vision which led to…

A zoologist a person who studies the behavior, genetics, life progression, and origin of different types of animals. A zoologist may choose to devote their entire studies to just one breed of animal or they can choose to study multiple, it just depends on what the individual is interested in. Some zoologist work at zoos, taking direct care of the animals, which is the basic idea of this career, that everyone has. However they may also be found working at wildlife reserves studying populations,…

If you have not yet purchased industrial fans for your assembly line, it might be something for you to consider. These are a few reasons why it's worth it to use industrial fans on your assembly line. 1. Keep Employees Cool In many factories, the assembly line can get incredibly hot. Even if you do have an industrial air conditioning system in place, it might be tough for it to keep up to really keep the assembly line at a comfortable temperature. Between the warmth that your machines all put…

They came out with the original plan in 2002 and editions to those plans have come out in 2005, 2010, 2013, and 2015 in the attempt to best carry out these conservation efforts. In the latest edition the plans go into detail about the biodiversity of Texas, “800 species of fish, 425 species of butterflies, 634 species of birds, and over 4,600 species of native plants. With 12 distinct eco-regions covering approximately…

Extinction is the model used for the inhibition of fear within a laboratory environment. It involves training organisms to fear a conditioned stimulus in a manner described above (Myers, Ressler, & Davis, 2006). While it was previously debated upon it is widely accepted that extinction is a new form of learning and thus the creation of new memories (Burgos-Robles, Vidal-Gonzalez, Santini, & Quirk, 2007). While the two memories of fear and extinction would compete with each other (Royer, & Paré,…

The World Bank project has conservation efforts to address the conflict and share knowledge and provide incentives to reduce illicit animal trade. The World Bank has a project in Bangladesh that has proven to be successful, as Bangladesh has established a Wildlife Control Unit and Area…

The purpose of this study is to assess the habitat quality of Schmeeckle Reserve in regards to the needs of the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes). This research will focus on the presence and relative abundance of small mammals, which serve as the main food source of the Red Fox’s diet. The vegetative habitat will also be studied; this includes the cover types present and any forage plant species used by the fox for food. The results of this study will allow for the continued management of the Red Fox in…