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The Moss‐in‐Prison project: disseminating science beyond academia
Author(s) -
Nadkarni Nalini M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
frontiers in ecology and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.918
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1540-9309
pISSN - 1540-9295
DOI - 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[442:tmpdsb]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - prison , dissemination , moss , content (measure theory) , computer science , library science , political science , ecology , biology , telecommunications , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis
M4y secretary stuck a post-it note on my door: "Telephone call from your prison warden. He said Inmate Hunter has another hypothesis to test about your mosses. He wants to put some moss flats under big-leaf maple trees in the prison yard, where they'll get natural throughfall does that make sense?" Although it seemed an unlikely request from a medium-security prisoner to a professor of forest ecology, I had grown used to such queries. Inmate Hunter was participating in the Moss-in-Prisons project, an ecological research and outreach program I initiated in 2005 to counteract the destructive effects of collect-