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Welcome from James L. Mau, Biologist
Producer, Subject Matter Researcher & Technical Investigator in the Natural Sciences.
Hello and Welcome to my web log.
Here I will upload posts about my adventures, explorations, news, views, opinions, and commentaries, as well as photos and videos. You can get to my blog timeline by clicking on the blog tab above or by clicking here. If you find all of this of interest, please take the moment and Bookmark the URL.
You can read about what I do on my About tab and see my resume using the Bio tab in the menu bar above so I won’t bore you with that.
My goal is just to introduce myself, share with you with what I am up to and see where the world might go on from there.
I very much find my beliefs and values about this world in nature and all that the forces and laws the universe has put forth. You might say that the forces that created the known (and the unknown) universe are where I find my faith and that nature would be my cathedral.
My academic and professional background is the biology & ecology of infectious and parasitic organisms. Where a physician would look at a pathogenic organism from the symptoms and signs of the disease and how he/she might cure the patient of that disease, I would look at the disease from the perspective of the pathogen itself. How could I, as the pathogen, evade the host’s immune defenses and survive to propagate myself both in the host(s) and in the environment .
Over the past 30 years or so I have observed the affects climate change has had not only on the relationships disease organisms have with their environment and the niches they inhabit but the consequences compounding human activities have had on entire ecological systems. I want the public and governments to think in terms of endangered ecological systems not just a few visible endangered species.
Today, I am also deeply concerned about the affects climate change (especially the direct effects of a warming planet and the subsequent increase in atmospheric moisture) is having on the increased severity of weather patterns and the resulting devastation we are seeing. It is important that people understand the circumstances of how and why these critical situations occur in order to prepare and respond to each situation. These circumstances also bring with them serious implications for detrimental public health risks that too must be addressed.
My future goal is to produce a multimedia public educational series on the consequences of climate change and compounding human activities on earth’s endangered ecological systems, to document the research be conducted and to explore what can be done to mitigate the damage.
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And please don’t forget to follow the adventures of my fictitious traveling companion Walley Tracker, Field Biologist. He’s quite the character…
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