The EcoRaft Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Lessons in Ecological Restoration
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With rapidly changing technology we are seeing a number of innovative ways emerging that can engage young people and help them understand some of the complexities of ecology. In the following example submitted by Riley Pratt and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, we see how fruitful collaboration between ecologists and computer scientists can be within the field of ecological education.
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