You might imagine that the life of an ecologist is spent mostly in beautiful and remote places. While this is sometimes true, a large fraction must also be spent in front of a computer. The reason is that science is only partially about making measurements or doing experiments. These parts are the glamorous ones, insofar…
Month: January 2013
Adapting to the winter
Cold depends so much on context. In the last two weeks, I’ve experienced two different winters separated by thirty degrees of latitude – Rondane National Park, in central Norway (62 °N), and now Tucson, in Arizona in the lower United States (32 °N). The experience has made me think more about how organisms (people included)…