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I am 23 years old and I currently study Biology at the University of Waterloo, ON. I have a great fascination with biological systems and the immense orginizational structure they possess. Plant development particularly interests me primarily due to the versatility of cell fate and the importance of that extrinsic information has on the morphogenesis of a particular cell line. As I continued my studies I grew a huge interest in how organisms interact with eachother and how entire ecological systems interact. I am currently interested in pursuing a field in ecotoxicology or something related to the plant science/agriculture.

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Canada, Waterloo
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  • A reply on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 13 2011: nuclear power is getting cancelled out?Really......?...

  • A comment on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 13 2011: This is a link to a non published paper and addresses some biases of the fossil record but does not address the role these biases have on our interpretation of previous mass extinction rates.

    http://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/Miller.html

  • A reply on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 12 2011: For sure, he still hasn't responded but hopefully he is a prof who will respond. I am very interested in what he says.

  • A reply on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 12 2011: yea I see how you use other tools such as isotope analysis in dating and I am not sure but I guess you could use that information to figure out climate variability through-out time. However, the issue is still there, this carbon dating you speak of will tell us nothing about which species are going extinct it would just give us information about climatic variables which could support findings of species declining if complimented with fossil record findings.

  • A comment on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 12 2011: I just emailed him though...hopefully I hear a response back :)

  • A comment on Conversation: Biases in 6th mass extinction event?

    Apr 12 2011: Thank you for your response, I really appreciate you took the time to read my views. No I have not, I will check him out! I just haven't heard much on this topic what so ever. Thanks!

  • A comment on Conversation: What sounds do you think are in the universe?

    Mar 22 2011: I don't know what it would sound like but I bet it smells bad..

  • A comment on Conversation: Innovative studying methods?

    Mar 19 2011: I watched this talk a while ago and it really showed me how by simply organizing data in a visual way your brain can process this information more efficiently than just reading texts, simply because the information now has a new meaning to you.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html
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