In the field: an interview with Roger Hanlon

Roger Hanlon is a Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, where he investigates body patterning and colour change in cephalopods. After his undergraduate degree in 1969 at Florida State University, USA, he joined the US Army and travelled before completing his MSc (1975) and PhD (1978) at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, USA. After a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1981, Hanlon joined the Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, where he became a full Professor, before joining the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1995. Hanlon talks about the seminal experience in his early 20s that inspired his career and the methods and equipment he uses to study cephalopod camouflage and communication across the globe.

Features of application of methods for protecting winter wheat in extreme conditions of the republic of Karakalpakstan

The article presents the results of a study on the study of the peculiarities of wheat cultivation in the extreme conditions of Karakalpakstan. The species composition of harmful insects inhabiting the wheat biocenosis has been studied. features of the use of lacewings multiplied at the biological laboratory against wheat aphids and the conditions of their reproduction in subsequent periods, with an increase in natural populations on wheat crops.

Features of application of methods for protecting winter wheat in extreme conditions of the republic of Karakalpakstan

The article presents the results of a study on the study of the peculiarities of wheat cultivation in the extreme conditions of Karakalpakstan. The species composition of harmful insects inhabiting the wheat biocenosis has been studied. features of the use of lacewings multiplied at the biological laboratory against wheat aphids and the conditions of their reproduction in subsequent periods, with an increase in natural populations onwheat crops.

ПРЕДТЕЧИ ВЫСШЕГО ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ В РОССИИ (К ИСТОРИИ ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО ФАКУЛЬТЕТА СПБГУ)

Issuing of the Decree on the Establishment of Geographical Institute in Petrograd by the Soviet Government in 1918 is usually being associated with the forerunning activities of the Higher Geographical Courses at Dokuchayev’s Committee. In the present essay, information is compiled about the roles of the attendants of Free Courses and the staff of the Biological Laboratory, both of which were organized by P.F. Lesgaft, in promoting geography in Russia. In particular, I.D. Strelnikov, who was born to a miserable peasant family, attended the Free Courses, which helped him to continue education in European scientific centers and participate in a successful expedition to South America. In 1918, I.D. Strelnikov contributed to the establishment of Institure of Geography in Petrograd. The essay is concluded with a judgment concerning the development of the science of geography in the second half of the XX century and the current state of geographical education in Russia.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Free-Living, Iridescent Bacterium Tenacibaculum mesophilum Strain ECR

ABSTRACT Here, we report the genome sequence of Tenacibaculum mesophilum strain ECR, which was isolated from the river/ocean interface at Trunk River in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The isolation and sequencing were performed as part of the 2016 and 2018 Microbial Diversity courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.