Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species (open access)

Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species

This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
Date: March 11, 2010
Creator: Arango, Ximena; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Massardo, Francisca & Ibarra, J. TomƔs
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broader Impacts 2.0: Seeing- and Seizing- the Opportunity (open access)

Broader Impacts 2.0: Seeing- and Seizing- the Opportunity

Article discussing viewpoints on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion and the emergence of Broader Impacts 2.0.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt; Bourexis, Patricia S.; Cook, Susan B.; Diederick, Laura & Tankersley, Richard A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Three Major Emission Sources on DFW Ozone Level Using Photochemical Modeling

Poster for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Graduate Exhibition. This poster discusses the evaluation of three major emission sources on the Dallas-Fort Worth ozone levels using photochemical modeling.
Date: March 7, 2015
Creator: Ahmadi, Mahdi & John, Kuruvilla
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research (open access)

Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research

This article discusses a recent workshop on Transformative Research held at the headquarters of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt; Barr, Kelli R. & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas (open access)

Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas

This article discusses integrating ecology and environmental ethics.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Armesto, Juan J., 1953-; GutiƩrrez, Julio R., 1953-; Massardo, Francisca; Likens, Gene E., 1935-; Anderson, Christopher B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research (open access)

The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research

This report is on the workshop 'Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications'. Workshop conversations cluster under the four headings of the history and definitions, promotion, evaluation, and integration of transformative research.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-engineering Ethics: Pushing Philosophy Outside of its Comfort Zone at the APPE Annual Meeting (open access)

Re-engineering Ethics: Pushing Philosophy Outside of its Comfort Zone at the APPE Annual Meeting

This article discusses ethics and pushing philosophy outside of its comfort zone at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) annual meeting.
Date: March 27, 2013
Creator: Barr, Kelli R. & Lu, Wenlong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose (open access)

Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose

Article discussing research on how the resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose.
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Infinite Nature (open access)

[Review] Infinite Nature

This article reviews the book "Infinite Nature," by R. Bruce Hull.
Date: March 2007
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research (open access)

[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research

This article reviews the book "Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences," by Seumas Miller and Michael J. Selgelid and published in 2008.
Date: March 20, 2009
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion (open access)

Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion

Article describing changes in the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) merit review criteria. The authors argue that scientists are more likely to preserve their autonomy by embracing - or 'owning' - the new Broader Impacts Criterion rather than resisting it.
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library