NWBIO 2011
Location:
Yakima
Valley Community College
Lodging: Holiday
Inn Downtown (NOT the
Holiday Inn Express) has rooms set aside for NWBIO (You may need to tell them that you're attending the meeting hosted by YVCC)
Red Lion Hotel Yakima Center --
Registration
Early Registration (Prior to April 1, 2011):
$80
per person for full-time faculty
$60 per person for part-time
faculty
Late Registration (Post-marked after April 1, 2011)
$100 per person (NOTE: Registration will only be accepted until April 21, 2011)
Please complete the attached registration
form and attach it to your payment.
Speakers
FRIDAY AFTER-
NOON
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Special afternoon (1pm-5pm) workshop with Dr. Daniel Roby organized by COSEE
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Friday afternoon COSEE workshop 1 - 5 pm COSEE -
Pacific Partnerships is sponsoring a workshop with Dr. Dan Roby, Professor,
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University. The workshop will use information from his
research on the ecology of fish eating colonial waterbirds (primarily Caspian
terns, double-crested cormorants, and several gull species) and their impacts
on the survival of juvenile salmonids in the Columbia Basin. Further information on these studies is at: http://www.birdresearchnw.org/ The
workshop will include activities suitable for inclusion in community college
courses. Registration for the workshop
will be available in March on the COSEE web site: www.coseepacificpartnerships.org/
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| Friday Evening |
Dr. Daniel Roby, Oregon State University. Sponsored by COSEE
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“Can protected fish-eating birds and threatened salmon
and steelhead coexist on the Columbia Plateau?” -- Caspian tern predation on
juvenile salmon in the Columbia River and options for reducing the impact of
Caspian tern predation on the survival of Endangered Species Act-listed salmon
smolts |
Saturday Morning
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Dr. Dona Boggs, the Biomimicry Institute.
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Biomimicry is an interdisciplinary practice that studies Nature’s best
ideas and then abstracts those designs and processes to solve human
technological challenges. Integrating biomimicry stories and
approaches into biology instruction, especially in introductory or
non-majors courses, can be helpful in making biology feel more relevant
to young people’s everyday lives and futures. It has a
demonstrated power to capture people’s imagination and offers them a
hopeful message that can inspire participation. I will present a
number of such inspiring stories and introduce you to some of the
resources that The Biomimicry Institute is developing (such as the AskNature.org data base) that may be useful to biology instructors. |
Saturday Evening
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Dr. Mary-Claire King, University of Washington
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Dr. King will discuss new discoveries about human evolution and human disease using genomics tools. |
Sunday Morning
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Workshops/Presentations
Call for
Abstracts
If
you would like to lead a Saturday morning presentation at NWBIO, please complete the attached
form and email to skenny@yvcc.edu
by April 14, 2011.
We also
plan “roundtables” for general biology,
nutrition, anatomy/physiology, ocean/marine science, microbiology and
natural resource instructors Sunday morning.
Field
Trips
| TRIP
NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
| Wild
Horse Wind and Solar Facility, east of
Ellensburg |
Set
on a ridge above the Kittitas
Valley, Puget Sound Energy’s Renewable Energy Center offers an up-close
view of
the wind turbines and solar arrays, as well as the Cascade mountain
range. A PowerPoint
presentation will be followed by
a tour of the turbines (go inside a tower) and solar panels and then
time to
interact with displays in the visitors’ center. |
| Cowiche
Canyon Hike and Wine Tasting, west of
Yakima |
An
easy hour hike through the shrub
steppe down into the canyon for a short walk along the Cowiche Creek
and then a
short hike up to The Tasting Room.
The
Tasting Room features wine tasting and organic vineyards. It is unique in
that all the wineries
represented are winemaker owned. |
| YVCC
Enology Program. at the lower valley campus
in Grandview |
Get
a behind-the-scenes tour of the process of
making wine and growing high quality grapes, and of course do some
tasting
along the way. You
will have the
opportunity to learn more about the steps involved in making some of
Washington’s premium wines. Trip
will
include a tour, of the YVCC facility with a discussion of the
winemaking
process, barrel sampling etc. This
will
be followed by a tour of Prosser wineries and tasting rooms. |
| Yakama
Nation Wildlife Management (Fish
Biology) |
This trip includes a look at
a new sturgeon hatchery, talk about fish
biology, and then
travel to the Yakima
River to view Pacific lamprey habitat and a demonstration on how to
electro-shock fish out of the water. |
Contacts
Feel
free to contact us for more
information, to suggest topics for meetings, or to host
meetings.
To get faster attention, please use NWBIO
in the subject line of your email.
Stephen Kenny skenny@yvcc.edu
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