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Stuart Pimm National Geographic interview

Roger — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:35:41 +0000

Click below to listen to the National Geographic interview with Stuart Pimm. NatGeo’s Boyd Matson talks with Stuart about his Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, which will be formally awarded this coming week in Los Angeles.

BTW Stuart regularly writes for the National Geographic blog (check here or on The Pimm Group Facebook page for updates).

Leading the Bioblitz

Roger — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:32:48 +0000

Dr. Pimm is taking a leading role in this year’s Bioblitz. According to Wikipedia, a Bioblitz is “a special type of field study, where a group of scientists and volunteers conduct an intensive 24-hour (or 48 hour) biological inventory, attempting to identify and record all species of living organisms in a given area.”

Stuart led the birding contingent for a Bioblitz in Indiana in 2009. (Read the blog posts about the 2009 bioblitz, in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.) This year he’s calling for participants to join this year’s National Geographic-National Park Service Bioblitz — at the largest marine park in the NPS system – Biscayne National Park. He’s volunteering to go offshore into deep waters off the reef looking for pelagic birds and also to accompany a shorter inshore trip.

Birder? In Florida? Join Stuart during the Bioblitz April 30 and May 1, 2010.

An Inordinate Passion for Tropical Moths

ahedgehog — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:46:45 +0000

National Geographic grantee Professor Roger Kitching wants to know how much less diversity there is in tropical rainforest that has been logged than in unlogged “primary” forest. He finds some clues from the moths he draws to his lamp, Stuart Pimm reports in words, images, and video from the field, deep in the Borneo jungle.

By Stuart L. Pimm
Special Contributor to NatGeo News Watch

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