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“Integrating ecological sciences and environmental ethics for biocultural conservation in the temperate, sub-Antarctic region of southwestern South America.”
Core Professors - USA:
Dr. Christopher Anderson, ecologist, UNT-UMAG-IEB
325J EESAT Building. Office Hours: By appointment, christopher.anderson@umag.cl
Dr. Ricardo Rozzi, conservation philosopher, UNT-UMAG-IEB
Dr. James Kennedy, ecologist, UNT
Core Professors – Chile:
Dr. Andrés Mansilla, phycologist, UMAG-IEB
Dr. Francisca Massardo, ethnobotanist, UMAG-IEB
Invited Lecturers:
Dr. J. Baird Callicott, philosopher, UNT
Dr. Juan Carlos Aravena, ecologist, Fundación CEQUA
Dr. Bernard Goffinet, bryologist, University of Connecticut
Dr. Irene Klaver, philosopher, UNT
Teaching Assistants,
Alexandria Poole, Philosophy PhD Student and MS Environmental Science Student
UNT 325C EESAT Building
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1-5pm, by appointment, alexpoole@my.unt.edu
Cristóbal Pizarro, conservation M.S. student, UMAG
Non UNT Participants: With the exception of Swarthmore, we are requesting that the rest of you use the livestreaming option that UNT has provided us to see the lecture portion of the course each week from 6-9 pm Texas time. You can find this at: http://web3.unt.edu/vcstream/ . In order to view the file, you will need to use Real Player, which can be downloaded here for PC or MAC.
Complete Syllabus[View][Download]
[Last Updated Aug 28]
Readings now available for the Wintermester 2009 Tracing Darwin's Path Field Course
Reading List and Student Leader [Last Updated Dec 8]
Date |
Lecturer/Topic |
Readings/Assignments |
Live Stream Archive |
Student Discussion Leaders |
27 Aug |
General Introduction to the Course and Subantarctic Ecosystems,
C.B. Anderson & R. Rozzi |
Rozzi et al 2006, Ecology and Society
Rozzi et al. Field Enviro Ethics 2008
Rozzi et al. 2008 Supplamental Material
Moore 1984
Online Version of Ten Principles: Online, Appendix 1, Appendix 2
Interesting Links Mentioned in Class: Day 1 |
27 Aug Archive
Anderson Lecture |
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3 Sep |
Biogeography and Ecology of Nothofagus forests
J.C. Aravana, R. Jana & R. Rozzi |
Veblen Ch. 1, Ch. 2
Lara et al. 2005
Heads 2006
Aravena et al 2002
Supplemental Links: Day 2 |
Picture quality is low on this archive, but sound quality is fine. We suggest you follow along with the .pdf of the powerpoint lecture.
3 Sep Archive
1st Lecture: Juan Carlos Aravana
2nd Lecture: Ricardo Jana
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10 Sep |
Watersheds: Aquatic biodiversity and ecology
J. H. Kennedy |
Moorman et al. 2006
Whiteman and Sites (2008)
Pickett, Contemporary Watershed Issues
Supplemental Links: Day 3 |
10 Sep Archive
Lecture: James Kennedy |
Jenny Paul |
17 Sep |
Wilderness
J. B. Callicott |
Callicott 2008 (Wilderness) [English] [Spanish]
The Land Ethic [English] [Spanish]
Mittermeier 2003
Additional Readings:
Thinking Like A Mountain [English] [Spanish]
Thinking Like A Mountain Commentary: http://www.cipma.cl/RAD/2007/1_Pensandocomentarios.pdf
Special Issue EE: http://www.cipma.cl/RAD/2007/1_Edicionespecial.pdf
Supplemental Links: Day 4
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17 Sep Archive |
Stephen Dillenberg |
24 Sep |
Subantarctic landscapes and comparisons between Northern and Southern Hemispheres
C. B. Anderson |
Online Website for Revista Chilena de Historia Natural [English] [Spanish]
Selections from the Revista Chilena de Historia Natural . Volume 64. No. 3. (Diciembre 1991).
Selections are:
- Alaback. Comparative ecology of temperate forests
- Jaksic & Feisinger. Birds
- Merserve & Jaksic. Vertebrates
Supplemental Links: Day 5 |
24 Sep Archive |
Toby Zelt |
1 Oct |
An ethno-orthinological approach
F. Massardo & R. Rozzi |
A Contemporary Mapuche Ethno-Ornithology: Winged Poems from the Native Forests of Chile Written by: Lorenzo Aillapan & Ricardo Rozzi
Ethical Implications of Yahgan and Mapuche narratives about birds of the austral temperate forests of South America by Ricardo Rozzi
The World's Southernmost Ethnoecology: Yahgan Handcraft and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. by Francisca Massardo y Ricardo Rozzi. (Large File) [Download]
Introduction to the Multiethnic Bird Guide (pp. 11-29) (Autobiographies)
Histories of Omora (Green-backed Firecrown hummingbird), Haspul (Fire eye diucon), Lejuwa (Buff necked Ibis), Shakoa (Snipe), Hakasir (Austral Trush), and Lana (Magallenic Woodpecker).
Audio Files: [Click to listen] Omora, Haspul, Lejuwa, Shakoa, Hakasir, Lana
Click [HERE] to download zip file of bird text and audio files
Film "La Ultima Huella"
Supplemental Links: Day 6 |
1 Oct Archive |
Sarah Schulwitz |
8 Oct |
Ethnography and culture of Magallanes
R. Rozzi |
The Origins of Ethnographic Subsistence Patterns (Patagonia Ch 4), Luis Alberto Borrero.
"Three levels of integrating ecology with the conservation of South American temperate forests: the initiative of the Institute of Ecological Research Chiloé,
Chile." Rozzi et al (2004)
Martinic
Film: Homage to the Yahgans by Anne Chapman |
No archive available |
Nate Pappenhagen |
15 Oct |
Marine biodiversity and Midterm Exam
A. Mansilla |
Fraser et al 2009 PNAS
Schiel and Foster The population biology of large seaweeds
Linse, K |
Lecture Cancelled |
Michael Simanonok |
22 Oct |
Watersheds: Philosophy and Policy
I. Klaver |
Galloway and Likens, "Processes controlling the compositionof precipitation at a
remote southern hemispheric location: Torres del Paine
National Park, Chile"
Ken Conca's Governing Water, Chapter 1: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2006
The United Nations World Water Development Report 3 (WWDR-3): Water in a Changing World" United Nations World Water Assessment Program, Earthscan Publications Ltd. July 2009
Supplemental Links: Day 9 |
22 Oct Archive |
Chad Bush
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29 Oct |
Invasive Species
C. B. Anderson |
Anderson et al. 2006
Larson 2005
Brown & Sax 2004
Supplemental Links: Day 10 |
29 Oct Archive Part 1
29 Oct Archive Part 2 |
John Woodling |
5 Nov |
Ecosystem ecology and thinking of the whole ecosystem
C. B. Anderson & J. Kennedy |
Golley 1993 [Ch. 3][Ch. 5]
Odum 1969
Pickett & Ostfeld Paradigm Shift
Supplemental:
Thomas S. Kuhn and "The Structure of Scientific Revolution" - http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/kuhnsyn.htm
Golley 1993 [Ch. 2]
Recommended:
Daniel Simberloff (1980). A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism. Synthese 43 (1). |
5 Nov Archive |
Carlos Jerez
Deborah Vierra |
12 Nov |
Implementing field stations, long-term socio-ecological research and biosphere reserves
C. B. Anderson & R. Rozzi |
Anderson et al. 2008 [English] [Spanish]
At Home in the Field, Smithsonian Tropical Stations in the US Panama Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama
Smithsonian Field Station gets the boot
Why Have Field Stations?
Guevarra from Environmental Ethics
Supplamental: Primack |
12 Nov Archive |
Nancy Kidder |
19 Nov |
Developing new paradigms in interdisciplinary graduate education
A. Poole & C. B. Anderson |
Required
-What is Education for? Six myths about the the foundations of modern education and six new principles to replace them: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC27/Orr.htm
-Biocultural and Linguistic Diversity Encylopedia Article
-Crossing Borders
- ISSE reading
- Excerpts of Estevez (Abstract)
-Underrepresented groups in ecology
Supplements:
-After eco comes service
-Morgan and Curtis
-Rozzi et al Field Environmetnal Ethics and Biocultural Conservation
-Ecological Society of America's SEEDS Program http://www.esa.org/seeds/
References: Vitousek
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19 Nov Archive |
Peter Palacios |
26 Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
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3 Dec |
Bryology, "The Miniature Forests of Cape Horn" and "Tourism with a Hand Lens"
B. Goffinet |
Rozzi et al. 2008 (Frontiers) Changing Lenses
Goffinet et al. 2006
Miniature Forests of Cape Horn and Tourism with a Hand-Lens
Bosques en miniatura del cabo de hornos y turismo con lupa
Part I
Part II
The Four Step Cycle
Supplemental: Pickett and Cadenasso: The Ecosystem as a Multidimensional Concept: Meaning, Model, and Metaphor. |
3 Dec Archive
PDF of Lecture Slides |
Jacob and Macy |
10 Dec |
Last Day: Summary
J. Kennedy, A. Poole |
Last Day: Semester Summary and Discussion |
10 Dec Archive |
N/A |
17 Dec |
Final Exam
J. Kennedy, A. Poole |
Final Exam |
17 Dec Archive |
N/A |
Related Links
For more information about the Chile-UNT program, please visit:
Chile-UNT Biocultural Conservation Program: http://www.chile.unt.edu.
Omora Ethnobotanical Park: http://www.cabodehornos.org/
Center for Environmental Philosophy: http://www.cep.unt.edu/
The Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance: http://www.osara.org/
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