NatureLab
Laboratory for Ecological Research
Environmental Projects and Workspace.
Ecological
Projects:
- Botany
– Design techniques for large-scale habitat restoration
programs in arid climates, chaparral and oak woodlands, including propagation
methods, rainfall and water management. (arid climate and subtropical plant
culture techniques)
- Biology
– Develop techniques for endangered species preservation and
restoration, cytokine monitoring, gestational support systems and gamete
preservation.
- Architecture
– Design and demonstrate very low impact architectural
strategies that benefit the natural environment, utilizing sustainable or
regenerative resources, personal labor, thermodynamic and energy independent
technologies.
- Agriculture
– Study and demonstrate food production methods based on
local and sustainable culturing systems, indigenous and arid climate plants.
- Population
– Review approaches to encourage population
sustainability based on health benefits, biodiversity, individual awareness
and medical technologies.
- Social Research
– Analyze studies and criteria to assist with a review
of: Nature Protection and Restoration, Construction, Fire and Insurance
company impact, to bring attention to large scale and forceful destruction of
countryside and wilderness regions, by various agencies and private entities,
typically without economic purpose or benefit. Review any incentives to:
encourage the creation of private nature reserves, restore habitat damages,
substantially reduce the impact of construction, suburban sprawl, energy and
resource consumption and assist with the design of wilderness and low impact
communities.
- Molecular Biology
– Preparing for a world going into botanical
shock. Gene sequence identification to extend drought tolerance and freeze
resistance in fruit bearing plants and to assist with wilderness restoration.
Research molecular mechanisms of plant immunological suppression and parasitic
adaptations. Create techniques for the restoration of ecological
interdependence through the development of hybrid substitutes to augment
endangered or extinct species. Research telomere restoration and cloning as
tools to slow the extinction process, protect gene pools and develop more
secure evolutionary paths. Identify gene clusters that can influence or alter
consumption requirements, violence and problem solving capabilities in
herbivores and predatory species. Develop computational models of ecological
systems including: alternate climate projections, human impacts and violence,
the process of extinction, biologic limitations, the influence of industrial
resources and the genetic attributes required to sustain and continue a
diverse evolutionary processes. Identify and distinguish various biologically
and industrially based human needs, wants and desires as related to our
evolutionary interests and potentials.
- Communications
– Web site design to provide practical information to
assist with: habitat protection, reforestation, endangered species
restoration, small scale agricultural systems, and architectural strategies
that can benefit the natural environment, as well as social approaches that
can encourage voluntary and cooperative participation.
Participation may optionally include personal research
or field work in botany, law, architecture, planning, thermal, structural and
materials engineering, molecular cell biology, endocrinology and zoology.
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