Sizable grants were awarded to pursue research in the areas of biology, chemistry, oceanography, neuroscience, and anthropology. Dean for Academic Affairs Elizabeth McCormack said it’s been a banner year for the College.
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The paper, published in the journal Current Biology, provides the first experimental evidence that wild birds—in this case Savannah Sparrows—learn how to sing based on sounds heard in early life.
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This fall, earth and oceanographic science professor Phil Camill is teaching a six-session course, on alternating Monday evenings, about climate change and “weird weather.” The attendees are mostly retired people living in Brunswick and nearby who belong to the Association of Bowdoin Friends.
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A team of scientists that includes Bowdoin professor Phil Camill has just released new findings on a question with significant implications for the future of the planet: how will the Earth’s peatlands, particularly the vast stretches in the Arctic, respond to global warming? Will they serve as carbon sinks or carbon sources?
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This summer, Julian Garrison ’19 began tackling the complex question about how two environmental conditions are facilitating the invasive plant’s growth. The more we understand about Phragmites’ invasion ecology, Garrison explains, the better equipped we will be to stop its destructive takeovers.
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“The ocean has been buffering us for years,” Roesler said. “It has been taking up so much excess carbon dioxide for us, and yet we still keep pumping more into the atmosphere.”
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A small team of Bowdoin researchers have just returned from northern Greece, where they were scouring three of the best sites in the world for clues into a great geological phenomenon that is still not widely understood.
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Bowdoin has received a major gift from Philip Schiller and Kim Gassett-Schiller of Half Moon Bay, California, that will allow the College to substantially expand opportunities for students studying oceans and the environment
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A new center for the study of the environment will bring faculty from many academic disciplines together to encourage collaboration and creativity in the teaching and scholarship of the environment and further strengthen Bowdoin’s position as a preeminent institution in this area of study.
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