These guides are designed to point you to library resources (i.e. books, articles, and statistical sources) and quality websites for your research.
Articles deal with interesting people, places, customs, activities and nature on a worldwide scale. Also covers National Geographic Society expeditions and discoveries. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
Articles on general science. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
Authoritative articles on all sciences by scientists who do the research reported. Edited for the interested layman. Features science and the citizen, computer reactions, the amateur scientists, reviews of current books in science and bibliographies. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
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Discover is a newsmagazine of science devoted to"the wonders, mysteries and challenges of modern science", written for the educated layperson. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
New Scientist has been at the cutting edge of science & technology since 1956. Every week science writers bring colleagues & students the latest news & advances in a stimulating, lively & authoritative way. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
Original research articles & letters, review articles, news of science in universities, industry & government, correspondence and opinion pieces. This magazine is available full text in the TRU Library via Academic Search Premier.
Provides full text for 3,430 journals (including the ones listed below!), with indexing and abstracting for more than 4,425 journals. Includes coverage of 3,280 peer-reviewed journals, and offers information from a broad range of disciplines.
The MathMol library contains 3-D structures for many molecules discussed in introductory biology and chemistry textbooks. The list is in its infancy and will be updated.
If you are interested in Mendel and his experiments, visit the Mendel Museum of Genetics Web site. An Augustinian friar, Gregor Johann Mendel lived and worked from 1843 in Brno, in the Abbey of St Thomas, of which he became the abbot in 1867. At the beginning of the 19th century, Brno, capital of the province of Moravia - then a region of the Austrian-Hungarian empire - was a culturally active, multi-lingual city. Mendel, who took part in the social and cultural life of the town, gained titles such as that first of Vice-President, and then President of the local Mortgage Bank, the Hypotheque Bank. He was especially known for his activity as a teacher, for his interest in meteorology and in the breeding of bees.
The National Centre for Biotechnology Information contains the nucleotide sequences for hundreds of thousands of species as researchers collect the information. An introduction to human genome research is available.
To find out how Canadian researchers contribute to the advancements of genomics, visit"The Geee! in Genome." You will also find a tribute to Michael Smith in the"The Researchers" section under"Canadian researchers".
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. Animal Diversity Web has thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. You will also find descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part.
Bugbios explores the human fascination with insects, including representations of insects in art. This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these creatures.
Images of insects are available at Iowa State'Â?Â?s Entomology Image Gallery.
More than 1/2 BILLION years old, the fossils of the Burgess Shale fauna preserve for us an intriguing glimpse of early animal life on Earth. These fossils are named after a Cambrian rock formation (the Burgess Shale) that is located in the western Canadian Rockies. They were first discovered there in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The vaults of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History currently house over 65,000 specimens, the largest collection of these fossils in the world. The Museum also has a permanent exhibit of the Burgess Shale fauna in the Dinosaur Hall. Since Walcott's original discovery, fossil deposits like these have been found in such widely dispersed areas as China, Greenland, Siberia, Australia, Europe, and the USA.
The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit educational organization with charitable status based in Field, British Columbia. It was established in 1989 to increase the exposure of the general public to the Earth Sciences and in particular, to promote interest in Geology and Paleontology
The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published- with original page numbers, illustrations etc.
If you are interested in botany, visit the Web site of the Botanical Society of America, which has an extensive collection of links and information about plants. The Botanical Society of America (BSA) is a"not-for-profit" membership society that exists to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.
The Visible Embryo is a comprehensive resource of information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical student and interested lay people. The Visible Embryo offers a detailed pictorial account of normal and abnormal development.
At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agreed on a comprehensive strategy for"sustainable development" -- meeting our needs while ensuring that we leave a healthy and viable world for future generations. One of the key agreements adopted at Rio was the Convention on Biological Diversity. This pact among the vast majority of the world's governments sets out commitments for maintaining the world's ecological underpinnings as we go about the business of economic development. The Convention establishes three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources.
COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) is a committee of experts that assesses and designates which wild species are in some danger of disappearing from Canada.
If you are interested in understanding the ecology of the BC biogeoclimatic zone where you live or plan to visit on your next holiday, consult one of these brochures published by the BC Ministry of Forests.
Imagine linking your everyday actions with your impact on the world. Through their 1996 Ecological Footprint calculator, UBC Professor Bill Rees and PhD student Mathis Wackernagel revolutionized how we view our impact on the environment. Through a series of questions on lifestyle choices, anyone can measure their effect. What's your impact?
Species and ecosystems at risk in British Columbia number in the hundreds. British Columbia is Canada's most biologically diverse province. How do we balance development with our responsibility to protect this diversity? One of the first steps is to identify those species and ecosystems that have become most vulnerable...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is open to all Members of the UN and of WMO.
The Population Reference Bureau website contains information about the population dimensions of important social, economic, and political issues.
The purpose of BC Climate Change Exchange is to facilitate interaction between the various government, civil society and private sector organizations in BC engaged in public education and outreach on climate change, impacts and solutions. Solutions include ways we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and ways we can adapt to the impacts of climate change.