Sharon Oosthoek
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Tasmanian Tiger: Lessons from the Past
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous mind, November/December 2011 by Sharon Oosthoek Aboriginal rock paintings show that thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, once lived all over Australia and on the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. At the time, they were the largest meat-eating marsupials in the world. But then humans hunted them to extinction. [...]
Painful Plants
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, July/August, 2011 by Sharon Oosthoek What plant is so menacing it’s an outlaw in the United Kingdom? If you move it across state borders in the United States without a permit, you’re in trouble? The answer is giant hogweed. The rock band Genesis even wrote a song [...]
Chemistry: Plant-powered plastics
Science News for Kids By Sharon Oosthoek July 13, 2011 If you looked at the plastic in your sneakers under a high-powered microscope, it would resemble cooked spaghetti, with each noodle tangled in the others. Plastics are made of groups of many atoms — the smallest building block of any element — linked together into [...]
How golf courses are getting greener
The Globe and Mail April 26, 2011
Arctic oil drilling fought off in Lancaster Sound
Canadian Geographic, April 2011 Area to become marine conservation area By Sharon Oosthoek Last summer was a stressful time to be the mayor of Grise Fiord, a tiny hamlet on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island. Meeka Kiguktak was keeping tabs on a research vessel motoring to Lancaster Sound to conduct seismic testing. Kiguktak and others in Grise [...]
Tiny water flea, many genes
CBC.CA February 3, 2011 By Sharon Oosthoek A water flea about the size of the equal sign on a keyboard has more genes than any other creature analyzed so far, say scientists, who suggest its sophisticated genome could one day double as a highly sensitive and inexpensive environmental monitoring tool. The tiny freshwater flea Daphnia [...]
Banishing Plague from the Prairie
Defenders Magazine Winter 2011 Vaccinating prairie dogs may be the key to saving rare black-footed ferrets by Sharon Oosthoek Behind the brick walls of the National Wildlife Health Center, past security doors leading to an isolation room, black-tailed prairie dogs dine on peanut-butter-flavored pellets. These tan-colored rodents with black-tipped tails were captured near Wall, South [...]
The Search for Shipwrecks
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, December, 2010 by Sharon Oosthoek Over three thousand years ago, a cargo ship sunk off the coast of Turkey while carrying tin, copper, glass, and ivory hippopotamus teeth — likely gifts from one king to another. The boat rested on the sea floor for 3300 years before [...]
Screaming Tadpoles!
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, Sept/Oct 2010 by Sharon Oosthoek If attacked, humans scream. So do chimps — ditto for lots of animals. And guess what? Tadpoles scream, too. The discovery surprised Argentinian frog expert Guillermo Natale, who thinks he may be the first to record tadpole screams. While biologists knew [...]
The Sound and the fury: Why mapping the seabed of Lancaster Sound has the Arctic in an uproar
The Globe and Mail August 6, 2010
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