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	<title>EcoTone &#187; Ecology in the News</title>
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		<title>New strategic vision for field stations and marine labs</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/new-strategic-vision-for-field-stations-and-marine-labs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data archive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest post]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Field stations and marine labs take on the future of science In this guest post, Ian Billick, PhD,  introduces the new strategic vision, released today, for the disparate network of field stations and marine labs. Recommendations include creating virtual access to historic data archives and streamlining physical access to field sites for extramural researchers. Billick  is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landsat Data Continuity Mission launches</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/landsat-data-continuity-mission-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phenology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great day for a launch: all indications positive for Landsat 8. By Liza Lester, ESA communications officer. AT 10:02am local time on Monday, February 11, 2013, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, into a clear blue sky atop an  Atlas V rocket. The latest USGS earth observatory satellite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oceanographers testify in Deepwater Horizon civil suit</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/oceanographers-testify-in-deepwater-horizon-civil-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=8076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer This fall has seen the endgame of the US Justice Department’s civil case against British Petroleum and eight partners in the matter of the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout, likely to be settled soon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Justice Department is suing under the Clean Water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In ecology news: bats, antbirds, wildfire recriminations, and retractions</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/in-ecology-news-bats-antbirds-wildfire-recriminations-and-retractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLoS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nature Conservancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildfire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer Cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, evolved in the old world, but has been very successful in the new, with a talent for colonizing disturbed rangeland. It fuels early season range fires. Credit, Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé &#8220;Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz,&#8221; 1885. http://www.biolib.de/ Bats &#38; Birds (&#38; Ants) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interconnection of Ecologists (#ESA2012)</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/an-interconnection-of-ecologists-esa2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/an-interconnection-of-ecologists-esa2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nadine Lymn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESA2012 annual meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Byers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Byers wrote up his impressions of the recent ESA Annual Meeting in a recent blog post: 12th of August, 2012. Old English is full of “terms of venery,” words for groups of animals: a pod of whales, a pack of wolves, a herd of deer, a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the keynote by Jerry Franklin (#ESA2012)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/reflections-on-the-keynote-by-jerry-franklin-esa2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESA2012 annual meeting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joern Fischer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joern Fischer is back with blog post on Jerry Franklin&#8217;s Monday morning plenary talk, &#8220;Forests, Fish, Owls, Volcanoes . . . and People: Reflections on fifty years of accumulated ecological knowledge and its application to policy.&#8221; Jerry Franklin just gave a very inspiring keynote address, on his favourite topic, the forests of the northwest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESA and Twitter &#8211; Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/esa-and-twitter-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/esa-and-twitter-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESA2012 annual meeting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computational ecologist Ted Hart is in Portland (OR), blogging ESA&#8217;s annual meeting at Dynamic Ecology. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from his Sunday post&#8211;thanks for sharing, Ted! In 2007 at ESA I and two other people were using twitter. Back then I didn’t understand it and had to ask what hashtags were. I gave up on twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great work-life balancing act</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/the-great-work-life-balancing-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/the-great-work-life-balancing-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can women (or parents?) ever have it all? by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer Erin McKittrick and her daughter Lituya at remote Malaspina glacier on the coast of Alaska. Credit, Erin McKittrick,  Bretwood Higman,  Ground Truth Trekking, 2011. &#160; The trials of balancing a competitive research career on top of the other demands and joys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESA2012 invitation to bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/esa2012-invitation-to-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/esa2012-invitation-to-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=7382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear ecological bloggers, We know that there are many of you out there in the broader ecological community, blogging your impressions of ecology’s intellectual ecosystem. Are you planning to blog ESA’s annual meeting in Portland, Ore. this August? We would like to gather your varied commentary on the research, workshops, field trips, and symposia presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social immunity of bees</title>
		<link>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/social-immunity-of-bees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/social-immunity-of-bees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liza Lester</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology in the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beekeeping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavioral genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colony collapse disorder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[honey bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer A honey bee (Apis mellifera) afflicted with Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that sucks away its vital, blood-like hemolymph, often passing along viruses in the process, and leaving open wounds. The mite spreads by bee-to-bee contact, accelerated by yearly circuits of agricultural bee broods transported to pollinate almonds and [...]]]></description>
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