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		<title>Public Lecture Sept. 27: What&#8217;s the Deal with Seals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS will host a lecture “Seal Biology &#038; Ecology in New England: Insights Through Strandings” by C.T. Harry, on Tuesday evening, September 27th, at 7:30 p.m. in Corless Auditorium on the URI &#8211; Graduate School of Oceanography, Bay Campus in Narragansett (URI-GSO). The Natural History Survey&#8217;s 17th Annual Meeting will precede the September 27 lecture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 RINHS Conference April 28, on Salt Ponds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, RINHS’s annual ecology conference focuses on southern New England’s salt ponds and coastal lagoons. These special landscapes help characterize coastal Rhode Island and other parts of southern New England. They form a complex boundary between sea and land and are loci of dynamic natural processes, diverse habitats, and intense pressure from human activity. [...]]]></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>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>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/06/03/proof-that-naturalists-are-smarter/</link>
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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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		<title>Marine Life Ethnohistory</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/26/marinelifehistory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/26/marinelifehistory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me why some plants are considered invasive while others, that arrived here earlier (after all they all arrived here from somewhere else because RI was once all glaciated), are considered native. You can give &#8216;em the usual cliche about how it&#8217;s invasive if it is reproducing outside its normal range to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Attacks High School Science Teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/01/22/darwinanddna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even that old and what I learned in high school biology class is getting VERY out of date. The New Scientist is running a fantastic article in its 24 January issue on the changes being wrought on evolutionary theory by advances in gene sequencing. Speaking for myself, at least, I welcomed this easy [...]]]></description>
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