Trip report and summary of conference content of Fifth Plenary Session, International Workshop on Implementing a Maghreb Digital Library for Education, Science & Culture held Jan. 25-28, 2007.
In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in
Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific
knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the
discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The
Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Long-distance migrants, including Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus
spp), can use geomagnetic information to navigate. We tested
the hypothesis that a “magnetic map” (i.e., an ability to extract
positional information from Earth’s magnetic field) also exists in a
population of salmon that do not undertake oceanic migrations.
This study examined juvenile Atlantic...