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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Climatic Change and Mussel shells
- In-Reply-To: wilsonms@igc.apc.org's message of 25 Jan 93 18:18:00 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:27:45
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- In article <1466602060@igc.apc.org> wilsonms@igc.apc.org (Wilson Middle School) writes:
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- From: wilsonms@igc.apc.org (Wilson Middle School)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:18:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!wilsonms Jan 25 10:18:00 1993
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- Paleoclimate Research With Freshwater Mussels.
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- My name is Keith Olive from Yakima, Washington 902 S.44th
- Yakima, Wa. 98908. 509-454-5848
-
- My 8th grade class is doing a major research project using freshwater
- mussels (Margaritifera falcata). We are comparing the growth rates
- of modern specimens to prehistoric specimens so we can reproduce
- climate conditions of long ago. We have access to specimens that are
- 7,000 years old. We would like to obtain specimens from other regions
- around the world to compare to our region. They are found holarctically
- so they should be in a variety of places. If you know of an area with
- these mussels please contact us, our E MAil address is"wilsonms". If
- you would like more info about the project send us a note. We'd love
- to work with other areas in our study of paleoclimate and climatic
- change.
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- We would also like to add to our collection of freshwater mussels
- from the world. If you have shells from non-endangered species, we'd
- love to recieve/trade shells. Thanks, Keith.
-
- In case it matters respond on EcoNet.
-
- Alas, collecting freshwater mussels from around the world is
- an extremely bad idea. In fact it is illegal. We just had
- a major infestation of European freshwater mussels into the
- great lakes, clogging power plant cooling intakes, etc.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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