Topical Ecology Class -My Community Issues, Class Experiences, Dominican Republic Ecosystem-

LAB 3
What are you excited about learning in the Tropical Ecology Class?
  R. I am excited to learn about the complexity of the tropical and sub-tropical ecosystem, to open my mind a new concepts and processes that I will looking for when I go back to my dear Dominican Republic.

What is one of the main environmental issues your community experiences?
  R. Moca City, my community, has different situations that fight agains each other to become the main environmental issue, but now I'll select the high contamination of the main river of the city, Moca River, that have been polluted since approximately 30 years ago.

What things have you learned thus far to help improve the environmental conditions of your community?
  R. I have taken different classes that has open my eyes on what can be do to improve environmental situations not just in my community, but anywhere. One of those is WATERSHED, I had never in my life now about the importance of knowing what surrounds your rivers and how impactful to the river is for what is using this land for.

Mangroves of the Dominican Republic

Flora and Fauna of the Dominican Republic can be find in the Hispaniola  web page

Rising Tide Is a Mystery That Sinks Island Hopes (The New York Times) -Popular Article-

Jason Henry for The New York Times

LAB 2

The Popular article Rising Tide Is a Mystery That Sinks Island Hopes is present by The New York Times and focuses on what is visible and how has been perceive the continuously raising of the Enriquillo Lake, Dominican Republic, also this include stories of what its been going on with people and their properties during the time of the phenomenon. I am interesting in this topic because it is mystery the raise of The Enriquillo Lake and there are so much hypothesis about the truth of what is going on in the south of the Dominican Republic.

ARCHIBOLD, R. C.  (2014, January 11).  Rising Tide Is a Mystery That Sinks Island Hopes.  The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 14.  From URL.   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/americas/rising-tide-is-a-mystery-that-sinks-island-hopes.html?_r=2

Physical and Chemical Properties of Hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic -Peer Review Article-

D. G. Buck 

LAB 2
The peer reviewed article Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic, focuses on the test salinity of the lake, trying to prove that there is fresh and salty water coming from different places into the lake. They explain what is the scientific method they used to try to prove their believes. This article just stick to show facts and information about the lake itself and provide charts, maps, and experiment reports to have a based for their conclusion. This an interesting article because give you perspective of what the scientist think about this phenomenon.

What will lead me to think this is a peer-reviewed article?

1.     Because it is divided into pieces (Introduction, methods, discussion…)

2.     How many reference this contain

3.     Who it is sponsoring the article

Buck D. G., Brenner M., Hodell D. A., Curtis J. H., Martin J. B., Pagani M. (2005, January). Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. Retrieved January 26, 14. From URL.   http://people.earth.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2005%20Buck%20et%20al.pdf