From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Aug 02 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cns-cas From: cns-cas@CNS.BU.EDU (Boston University - Cognitive and Neural Systems) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International Conference on CNS Date: 3 Aug 1997 16:58:16 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 202 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970803195435.0071fdbc@cns.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net *****CALL FOR PAPERS***** SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS'98) May 27-30, 1998 Sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Systems and the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University with financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research CNS'98 will include invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at bringing together researchers in computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and artificial neural networks, among other disciplines, with a particular focus upon how intelligent systems adapt autonomously to a changing world. The First International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems was held on May 28-31, 1997 at Boston University. Its title was: Vision, Recognition, and Action: From Biology to Technology. Over 200 people from 18 countries attended this conference. Many participants asked that a sequel be held in 1998, and that the meeting scope be broadened. CNS'98 has been designed to achieve both goals. The meeting aims to be a forum for lively presentation and discussion of recent research that is relevant to modeling how the brain controls behavior, how the technology of intelligent systems can benefit from understanding human and animal intelligence, and how technology transfers between these two endeavors can be accomplished. The meeting's philosophy is to have a single oral or poster session at a time, so that all presented work is highly visible. Abstract submissions enable scientists and engineers to send in examples of their freshest work. Costs are kept at a minimum to enable the maximum number of people, including students, to attend, without compromising on the quality of tutorial notes, meeting proceedings, reception, and coffee breaks. Although Memorial Day falls on Saturday, May 30, it is observed on Monday, May 25, 1998. Contributions are welcomed on the following topics, among others. Contributors are requested to list a first and second choice from among these topics in their cover letter, and to say whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work, when they submit their abstract, as described below. *vision *object recognition *image understanding *audition *speech and language *unsupervised learning *supervised learning *reinforcement and emotion *cognition, planning, and attention *sensory-motor control *spatial mapping and navigation *neural circuit models *neural system models *mathematics of neural systems *robotics *neuromorphic VLSI *hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) *industrial applications *other Example: first choice: vision (B); second choice: neural system models (B). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Contributed abstracts by active modelers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial intelligence, and neuromorphic engineering are welcome. They must be received, in English, by January 31, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 28, 1998. A meeting registration fee of $45 for regular attendees and $30 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information below for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until April 1, 1998. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5 x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract, corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address. Preference for oral or poster presentation should be noted. (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: CNS'98, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. The program committee will determine whether papers will be accepted in an oral or poster presentation, or rejected. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Since seating at the meeting is limited, early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to: CNS'98, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. If paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or email to cindy@cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: A limited number of fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows are available to at least partially defray meeting travel and living costs. The deadline for applying for fellowship support is January 31, 1998. Applicants will be notified by February 28, 1998. Each application should include the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address; current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address, and email address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor on official institutional stationery should accompany the application and summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Students who also submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee with their Abstract. Reimbursement checks will be distributed after the meeting. Their size will be determined by student need and the availability of funds. REGISTRATION FORM (Please Type or Print) Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University Boston, Massachusetts Tutorials: May 27, 1998 Meeting: May 28-30, 1998 Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: Name: Affiliation: Address: City, State, Postal Code: Phone and Fax: Email: The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. For registered participants in the conference, the regular tutorial registration fee is $25 and the student fee is $15. For attendees of only the conference, the regular registration fee is $45 and the student fee is $30. Two coffee breaks and a tutorial handout will be covered by the tutorial registration fee. CHECK ONE: [ ] $70 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) [ ] $45 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) [ ] $45 Conference Only (Regular) [ ] $30 Conference Only (Student) [ ] $25 Tutorial Only (Regular) [ ] $15 Tutorial Only (Student) Method of Payment: [ ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. [ ] I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). 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From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Aug 09 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From:  minch@crick.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CALL FOR TESTERS: Genography Project Date: 10 Aug 1997 19:33:56 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5sl534$ctu$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: crick.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Alexandra.app (Version 0.82) Dear colleagues-- The U.S. National Science Foundation has granted us some funding for our "Genography" database on the basis of its prototype implementation. The goals of this project are to update and extend the set of data used in _History and Geography of Human Genes_, to implement as production-quality programs many of the methods for statistical data analysis which have been developed in this laboratory, and to make the data and ancillary analytical programs available to researchers on the internet. Development of the prototype was driven more by the engineering possibilities than by the unknown requirements of unknown users. It's clearly important, however, that the database be made as broadly accessible and useful as possible. Ideally, this means that everyone affected by it should be involved in its design from the very outset. In return for your help in defining the requirements and critiquing the evolving design, we can provide to you data and software not easily available elsewhere. If you are interested in participating, please reply to me at minch@lotka.stanford.edu. More details are available at the Genography web page, http://lotka.stanford.edu/genography.html/. Eric Minch From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Aug 10 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Aug 1997 02:00:06 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199708110900.CAA10972@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. 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For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Aug 14 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.1.48.12!newsfeed.usit.net!news.usit.net!not-for-mail From: tdruen@usit.net (Todd Druen) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Teacher Needs Help!!! Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:58:42 GMT Organization: United States Internet, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33f5b4e8.4256998@news.usit.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.241.222.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 I am looking for info in my content area. I teach 5 sections of Junior level Ecology. I know that the materials are out there but I do not know the procedure in obtaining them. I have heard that companies and corporations have videos that they loan out or give to teachers for use in their classroom, I just do not know how to get them. I am looking for any ideas, pamphlets, brochures, transparencies, or videos. I would appreciate any help that you can offer. Thank you. Todd Druen tdruen@usit.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Aug 18 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!152.163.199.19!portc03.blue.aol.com!newstf02.news.aol.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!audrey02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rogluthier@aol.com (Rogluthier) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: war and population Date: 19 Aug 1997 03:31:58 GMT Lines: 6 Message-ID: <19970819033101.XAA27091@ladder02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder02.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Is anyone aware of studies or books pertaining to the long term suppression of population as a consquence of war, especially in the 20th century? Millions have been killed by war and how much smaller is the world's population because of the devastation? Roger Thurman From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Aug 18 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!152.163.199.19!portc03.blue.aol.com!newstf02.news.aol.com!audrey02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: jcox122202@aol.com (JCox122202) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: finding out-of-print books Date: 19 Aug 1997 23:18:31 GMT Lines: 5 Message-ID: <19970819231800.TAA25164@ladder02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder02.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Some places to look for out-of-print books are: www.bksearch.com, www.interloc.com, www.bibliofind.com, www.bibliocity.com, www.abebooks.com. You can look by subject, title, keyword, author. Searches are free and ordering information is there. 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Visit: http://www.pamsex.com http://www.pamsex.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Aug 22 23:00:00 1997 From: "Trojan_Horse" Subject: Environmental Scientists Message-ID: <01bcafc2$d4cc3440$86772299@default> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 05:46:38 -0700 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.68.152.12!upnetnews01!upnetnews02 Lines: 96 Congratulations! You have just made an observation that Rush Limbauh keeps missing. Environmental scientists are not bleeding-heart liberals. Pseudo-environmentalists are many, but the same liberals who support environmental agendas as a hip, fashion statement demonstrate by their support of liberal immigration policy that they are intellectually incapable of fathoming the communications from the scientists regarding the effects of human population growth on our finite ecosystems. Environmental scientists practice the perception of Himler, who according to the author of “The History of the SS”, transplanted only two Germans in Poland for every three Poles who were eliminated from their properties, so that there would be room for population growth. A good example of how environmental scientists practice their trade was a project to save a population of White-Tail Deer from starvation a few years ago in South Florida. Due to unusually heavy rains, marsh lands in Everglades National Park were flooded to the extent that much of the natural diet of the deer was inaccessible. The scientists calculated that unless about 500 deer were removed from the environment that several thousand would die from malnutrition. And so, with the assistance of the State Wildlife Management personnel, they conducted a population adjustment on the herd. The “Miami Herald” published a story on the event which included a provocative photo, not unlike a scene from the movie “Apocalypse Now”. The photo featured Park Rangers flying over the Glades in a helicopter while shooting deer with M-16 assault rifles. Members of Jacque Cousteau’s Pet Baby-Fur-Seal Club who expected to see a picture of Bambi being rescued by a Forest Ranger may not have been amused. Of course those who have developed an appreciation for conspiracy theories might surmise that the REAL reason for the slaughter was a shortage of venison stock needed to entertain the appetites of the Corporate Elite, who enjoy lodging at Mandalay Four Seasons Hotels, where all breakfast sausage served is made of pure venison. So are environmental scientists catching a bad wrap? Sure they knowingly influence environments in such a way that will predictably result in the suffering and premature death of large populations of human beings. At least, their effort is intended to prevent even greater suffering of our species. As cold and clinical as they appear to behave, are they any more inhumane than the political leader who declares war on another nation, or a celebrated military commander who manages a deliberate effort to kill people? Yes indeed; environmental scientists are even more inhumane because these Ice Men Cummeth and wrench from us our most sacred pipe dream. They compromise our favorite hallucination by suggesting that we are as mortal and vulnerable to the laws of physics as is any other animal. At least political leaders and military commanders titillate our fantasies with surrealistic notions with which we rationalize why we kill. In Vietnam the English and French may have held the territory for control of its mineral wealth, but not us. No siree’ Bob; our boys were fighting to protect the political rights of Oriental rice farmers. When Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait, obviously for control of their oil-fields, we never considered for a moment that he might jack up the price of oil a couple bucks a barrel. We annihilated his grossly inferior army because God doesn’t like bullies. It was the only moral thing to do. The reason that environmental scientists are so disliked, is because whenever we imagine reasons to worship ourselves as Gods, they wake us up and remind us that we are but beasts. Now that’s inhumane From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Aug 22 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!ELLENSBURG.COM!digress From: digress@ELLENSBURG.COM (Mike Pearson) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Evolutionary Biology White Paper Date: 23 Aug 1997 00:53:48 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 42 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9708230751.AA19053@ellensburg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net About 24,500 words into the evolution white paper at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ecolevol/evolution.html "This is particularly relevant to future human welfare in that humans now consume an estimated 25% of global primary productivity." That statement ends this paragraph: "Previous crises in biodiversity are seen in the fossil record, and evolutionary paleontologists can use these as past experiments to inform about the consequences of biodiversity loss, the characteristics of species most at risk, and the nature and time scale of biotic recovery. For example, many extinction events in the geologic past are followed immediately by outbreaks of disaster species; much more needs to be learned about this process since there is no guarantee that disaster species that may arise in modern regions that have suffered extensive loss of biodiversity would be benign (Sepkoski, 1997, Biodiversity: past, present, and future, J Paleontology). Similarly, past biodiversity crises are associated with marked declines in primary productivity. This is particularly relevant to future human welfare in that humans now consume an estimated 25% of global primary productivity. " Word searches are a fun way to read this. Mike I heard Earth emit a rare sound of emotion with a catch in her voice: " . . . silly . . . calcereous nannoplankton. ." she said poignantly, lovingly, sadly, as their deposits declined in the ocean floor mudbank. -- A Visit to the Age of Dinosaurs, 1991 "Evolution, Science, and >Society: a 'white paper' on behalf of the field of evolutionary >biology." This can be seen online at: >http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ecolevol/evolution.html From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Aug 26 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!134.222.90.2!EU.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newscore.univie.ac.at!news-ge.switch.ch!news.unige.ch!news From: Nicolas Ray Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Amphibians and metapopulations Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:48:22 +0200 Organization: University of Geneva Lines: 32 Message-ID: <34042216.8B1F0A9C@infomaniak.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.194.110.16 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) I am a Master Degree student of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The subject of my work is to study the amphibian metapopulations and the connections among ponds in the canton of Geneva. I will be using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to locate these connections and the potential obstacles. if you know people, or works, dealing with amphibians and GIS, I would be thankful if you could send me these pieces of information. Thank you in advance Nicolas Ray -- Nicolas Ray E-mail : nray@infomaniak.ch Laboratoire d’Ecologie et de Biologie Aquatique (LEBA) Ch. des Clochettes 18 CH-1206 Genève Tél. : (+41 22) 705 71 05 / 01 Fax. :(+41 22) 789 48 89 http://anthropologie.unige.ch/LEBA/