Thursday: Does Our Climate Problem Call for Triage?

11:00 a.m. At today’s plenary talk, Stanford’s Terry Root tackled a subject that bleeds into the margins of nearly every talk and poster that’s been given so far: the problem of global climate change.
Although there’s a lingering sense of controversy in the wider world, you’ll find no doubts among the 1,000 assembled scientists here about [...]

Wednesday night: Students in Jeopardy

…Jeopardy the quiz show, that is. Wednesday night was the first-ever third-annual (see correction in Comments) Student Quiz Bowl. Nine teams of three graduate students competed in a Jeopardy-style quiz show. Questions were all bird-oriented, covering field identification, videos of behavior to interpret, and anatomy, taxonomy, history, hybridization, physiology, and so on – even a [...]