Tag Archives: Henry Stommel

There’s no such thing as a mesocosm

Posted on 2015/11/23 by Sam

I don’t know about those experiments.  They were all done in mesocosms…or as I call them, “bags.” –Anonymous limnologist Last week, the eminent population ecologist Charley Krebs, channeling the sentiment expressed in the quote above, wrote a blog post on something … Continue reading →

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Varieties of Oceanographic Experience

Posted on 2010/05/16 by Sam

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about issues of scale in ecology, both because I’m taking a fascinating seminar on the topic this quarter, and because my particular research is conducive to thinking about them. “Scale” came to the fore … Continue reading →

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