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| Personal background |
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I am exective director of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History near York, South Carolina, a non-profit organization whose Mission is "to conserve animals, plants, habitats, and other natural components of the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation, scientific study, and education for students of all ages." Its Web site is http://www.hiltonpond.org.
The Center is the most active bird banding station in the Carolinas and a recovery site for the federally endangered Schweinitz's Sunflower. Its Web pages include informative text and photographs of flora and fauna that can be found in most habitats in the eastern U.S. Included are descriptions of the Center's long-term bird banding research projects (including hummingbirds) and "This Week at Hilton Pond," a pictorial account of natural changes through the seasons. Teachers, students, parents, birders, and conservationists will find this Web site to be a rich source of information about all sorts of nature topics. We are currently working on a Web site subsection about the night sky over the Piedmont.
The Center's main outreach program is "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" (http://www.rubythroat.org). Operation RubyThroat is an award-winning cross-disciplinary project in which participants in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America collaborate to study behavior and distribution of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris). This web-based project is open to all, but K-12 teachers and students especially are invited to participate. The Operation RubyThroat Web site is the most comprehensive one available about hummingbird natural history, banding, and research. Operation RubyThroat is affiliated as a Special Measurement of The GLOBE Program (http://www.globe.gov). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Certainly, inthe vast cosmos there is other extraterrestrial life, and likely life that is intelligent at some level. The odds are very much against Earth being the only inhabited planet in the universe.
It appears to me that we already are sending transmissions--radio, television, and the like--that eventually will be detected by extraterrestrial sensors. Perhap this mosaic of entertainment and news from Earth is all the signal we need.
I support SETI because I am an educator-scientists who encourages the discovere of new knowledge and the dissemination of it to everyone. |
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