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		<title>Roger Goos, URI Prof. of Botany, Emeritus—1924-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Goos, a professor of botany at the University of Rhode Island from 1970 to 1995, passed away on Monday, March 7 at the age of 86. Roger grew up on a farm in Iowa, serving in the Infantry in WW II (European Theater) earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Dr. Goos received his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Nose Syndrome Update February 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[White Nose Syndrome was first discovered to be affecting bats in northeast North America in 2007. Since then it has devastated bat populations in the region and spread substantially across the eastern United States. There are several new developments that may be of interest to Rhode Island naturalists. The following is a news item sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nominations Sought for 2011 Distinguished Naturalist Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nominations Sought for 2011 Rhode Island Distinguished Naturalist Award Once a year the Directors of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey seek nominations for the Rhode Island Distinguished Naturalist Award, an honor presented to one or more people annually by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. Over the years this award has become an expression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Service for Les Mehrhoff Scheduled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS received the email below this morning through the invasive species grapevine (or would that be bittersweet vine?). It is from the family of late invasive plant guru Les Mehrhoff and announces a date for a memorial service. Someone from RINHS will definitely be going so anyone from the RI area interested in attending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Les Mehrhoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the unexpected death, on December 22, of Les Mehrhoff, the natural history family lost one of its greatest, most visionary members. Les&#8211;botanist, ecologist, teacher, founder and leader and leader of IPANE (Invasive Plant Atlas of New England), and all-round invasive plant guru&#8211;suffered a massive heart attack at his home in Connecticut. Les was working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Doug Greene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all who&#8217;ve been contacting the Survey to remember Doug Greene, who passed away suddenly on Sunday on his way home from BioBlitz. There will be a service for Doug in his home town of Reading, Mass., on Friday, June 18&#8211;visiting hours from 6-8 pm, memorial service at 8 pm. This link has more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBlitz 2010 A Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teams are just back in from BioBlitz 2010 and I&#8217;m sure people are working hard to unload gear, hang out sleeping bags and tents out to dry, and catch up on sleep. Thank you all for your tremendous efforts that made the event such a success. Thanks to the Block Island community for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof that Naturalists are Smarter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research reported from the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego shows a positive correlation between learning and exposure to a common soil bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae. Here&#8217;s the link: SMARTER So don&#8217;t be a dumby, get out there and play in the dirt. And perhaps more to the point, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New salamander genus found in U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll never know so much about the world around us that there&#8217;s nothing left for naturalists to discover and just to prove that point, scientists recently announced the discovery of a new species (in fact it belongs to a whole new genus) of lungless salamander in the hills of Georgia.  Urspelerpes brucei , as it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard in the Taxonomy Dept&#8230;. &#8220;Hello? Anyone here?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that RINHS is here for is to encourage the practice of taxonomy: connect those with taxonomic expertise with those interested in learning and otherwise to facilitate by preserving systematic collections, maintaining a reference library, and organizing and publishing the results. All this is useful (necessary, in fact) if you want to know what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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