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#aldemaro romero jr.#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#62. One of the World’s Largest Artificial Trees#The first thing you notice when disembarking by sea in Oslo is the Oslo Tree. This 14-meter-tall and 12-meter-wide tree has 125#000 LEDs#and 150#000 LED (led-emitting diode) leaves that generate a computerized display tailored to the season. The Oslo Tree challenges the boundaries be#nature#and technology.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 121. Next to Tyrannotitan
Tyrannotitan (/tɪˌrænəˈtaɪtən/; lit. 'tyrant titan') is a genus of substantial bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the carcharodontosaurid family from the Aptian stage of the early Cretaceous period, discovered in Argentina. It is closely related to giant predators like Carcharodontosaurus, especially Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 108. Whaling flensing knife in Barbados
This is one of the whaling tools my former student Joel Creswell and I found while researching the history of whaling in the Caribbean Island of Barbados. To learn more, go to: https://www.aromerojr.net/Publications/564.Barbados.pdf
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#aldemaro romero jr.#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#57. Copenhagen Little Mermaid#Unveiled in 1913#The Little Mermaid statue was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s famous fairytale about a mermaid who gives up everything to be united w#handsome prince on land. This sculpture has been the victim of vandalism. Twice she has lost her head#once the arm was sawn off#and several times she has had paint poured on her. So much for the human condition!
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#aldemaro romero jr.#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#54. “Hemingway” and me.#Hemingway became a fixture of Havana and stayed in Cuba longer than many Americans chose to after the Cuban Revolution. During my last trip#I met this Hemingway impersonator in front of the hotel where Hemingway stayed for some time. Hemingway later bought a house on the outskir#no#I don’t smoke)
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#aldemaro romero jr.#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#52. A vanishing species?#Spachea perforata is a species of flowering plant and the national flower of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). It is commonly known as#this has been disputed by botanists who think that this species was introduced from South America. Next to the tree is my former student#Shelly Kannada.
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#aldemaro romero jr.#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#50. Conducting an orchestra at the age of 5.#My father was a musician and TV personality. He brought me to his TV show to conduct his orchestra early on. That gave me some notoriety#and I was hired to have a cameo appearance in a 1957 full-length movie filmed in Venezuela titled Papalepe#in which I performed conducting a circus orchestra. I ended up becoming a biologist#not a musician. (https://vimeo.com/63444566)
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 45. In a submersible
No, I'm not trying to visit the wreckage of the Titanic; simply observing the marine life off the coasts of Yucatán, Mexico. And you don’t have to be a millionaire to rent an underwater vehicle…
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 43. Rain or snow…
One of the places I always took my students while I was at Macalester College was The Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area (Ordway Field Station). It is located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, 17 miles from the Macalester campus. The nearly 300-acre site was established in 1967 by the College with the help of a major gift from Katharine Ordway.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 42. Marketing a Department
I produced a poster for the department to attract more biology majors at Arkansas State University when I was Chair there. I wanted something that linked the current faculty and their fields with names of historical figures in biology. In 2006, I approached the Chair of the Department of Art and Design, Curtis Steele, asking if he could find a student to design a poster for our department. He proposed opening a competition among his art class students to develop a design.
Nine proposals were presented by the students. I showed them to the faculty to vote on which one they liked the most. The winning design was also printed in Spanish to attract diverse students.
The poster was a success among faculty and students, with many asking for copies to be displayed throughout campus buildings. It helped create a sense of community among us while increasing the number of Latino students.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia #39. Sea lions and earthquakes.
Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 39. Sea Lions and earthquakes. A few California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) began "hauling out" on Pier 39's after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. By January 1990, these pinnipeds started to arrive in droves. With a plentiful supply of food from the Bay and an environment protected from white sharks and orcas, the Pier 39 Marina proved to be an ideal living situation for the sea lions. The number of sea lions grew to more than 1,700 in November 2009. Unfortunately, numbers are going down because of local plastics pollution. Every time I go to San Francisco, I visit them.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 36. Storks in Morocco
One of the most common faunal features in Morocco is the storks. The one in the pictures is the white stork (Ciconia ciconia). I took these pictures in Rabat.
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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 34. Seal Island, South Africa
This rookery, off the coast of South Africa, is used by brown fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) for breeding and protection from predators (primarily great white sharks). Harvesting of seals was outlawed in South Africa in 1990. However, the population is still recovering.
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#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#33. Memorial to Peter Artedi. While writing an article about the history of marine mammalogy#I went to Amsterdam#where a memorial is dedicated to the Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi (1705-1735). He is considered the father of ichthyology. This monument#look at my article at: https://www.aromerojr.net/Publications/671.When_whales_became_mammals_the_scientific_journey_of_cetaceans_from_fish_
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#Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia#31. Losing faith in higher education.#Most Americans don’t think a college degree is worth the cost#according to a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll#a new low in confidence in what has long been a hallmark of the American dream. Trust in the value of a degree plummeted among women and se#the decrease in the appreciation of higher education has gone down from 53% in 2003 to 42% in 2023. Other recent polls confirm this tendenc#highereducation
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