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CLARKSON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Bostwick Hawley Ketchum, Sc.D., marine ecologist...
HAVERFORD COLLEGE Richard H. Pough, LL.D., ecologist and ornithologist...
Watt terms himself a "systems ecologist," one of the first of a new species. Together with a growing number of colleagues, he has worked for seven years to design mathematical models of various ecosystems for the computers to analyze. In a Ford Foundation-funded program, he now has operating models of a sample county in California and selected state phenomena: crime, education, farm production, taxation, transportation and population growth. If a $750,000 federal grant comes through, he hopes to finish an even more intricate set of equations describing land uses and energy flows...
...scholarly paper that German Zoologist Wolfgang Wickler presented at a scientific meeting in Tanzania last January dealt, among other subjects, with sexual fidelity in the animal world. For two members of the conference, Ecologist Lee Talbot and his biologist wife Martha, both of the Smithsonian Institution, his remarks were of more than academic interest. They provided an exciting clue that might well lead to control of the crown-of-thorns, the giant starfish that is literally eating away vital coral reefs in the Pacific (TIME, Sept...
...hormonal insecticides were to succeed, they would have to attack only one pest, while leaving the species' natural insect predators unharmed. Otherwise, hormones would be merely a more potent variety of DDT from an ecologist's point of view...