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Starting this summer, undergraduates have done this semester’s work on their own. Sitting in the UC’s office in the Quad, Staff and two Crimson Reading employees have been using a 30-page checklist to cull book information from the online syllabi of all courses offered to undergraduates this semester...
...chore might be another's hobby, Hodgson decided to fill the information gap by enlisting people who would be naturally interested in saving coral: scuba divers. In 1997 he created a global network of volunteer snorkelers and divers, specially trained by scientists to monitor reefs using a standardized checklist. Over the past 10 years, Reef Check's volunteers have amassed a bounty of data on the world's coral. "In the beginning, people were looking down on us, saying 'Oh, you guys are just volunteers,'" Hodgson recalls. Now, Reef Check has become one of the primary sources of scientific information...
...Check. Realizing that one man's chore might be another's hobby, Hodgson decided to fill the information gap by enlisting people who were naturally interested: divers. In 1997 he created a global network of volunteer snorkelers and divers, specially trained by scientists to monitor reefs using a standardized checklist. Over the last 10 years, Reef Check's volunteers have amassed a bounty of data on the world's coral. "In the beginning, people were looking down on us, saying 'Oh, you guys are just volunteers,'" Hodgson recalls. Now, Reef Check has become one of the primary sources of scientific...
...hoped to show that all people share the same basic life experiences. He and his wife Michele, his partner in the Milestones Project in Littleton, Colo., say they have found their purpose. "People thought we were out of our minds," says Steckel. "I guess we live with a different checklist of values...
...think, in fact, it would not be helpful to have some kind of formulaic checklist that one would look for,” English department chair James T. Engell said, “because, as I’ve said, every case is unique...