Browsing Retired Biology Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Title
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Biological husbandry and the "nitrogen problem"
(Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 1986)Since 1978, the author has been conducting research into the theory and practice of biological husbandry in collaboration with a farmer who stopped using pesticides and mineral fertilizers in 1976. Eggs are exported from ... -
Can we stop the lobster going the way of the cod?
(labeled ‘A brief submitted in 2006 to the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC)’, 2006)This report is a response to the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC)’s request for opinion on how to reduce risk and address problems in Atlantic Canada’s lobster fishery. See www.frcc-ccrh.ca for further details ... -
Critical thinking through the eyes of Richard Paul and Karl Popper
(2014-10-08)This 1993 workshop marks the beginning of my new logical or metaphysical research program on the application of Karl Popper’s non-inductive theory of method to the management of the World’s commercial fisheries. The view, ... -
Demise of the garden of Acadia
(DVL Publishing Inc., Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 1981-07)In the late 1970s, plans were being developed for construction of a tidal power barrage at the mouth of the Annapolis River. Much of the land by the river in that area was dyked and was used by farmers for grazing and ... -
Distinguishing input controls from ouput controls in Atlantic Canada's fisheries: explaining the decline and collapse of Newfoundland's Atlantic cod stocks
(2013-03-14)The lobster and groundfish fisheries of Atlantic Canada have been managed in very different ways. The Atlantic lobster fishery has been managed by input controls in which regulations have been developed by a posteriori ... -
Ecological Assessment of the Plant Communities of the Williams Lake Backlands
(The Williams Lake Conservation Company, 2014-02-12)The Williams Lake Backlands (WLB), covering approximately 200 ha, are the larger, undeveloped part of the Williams Lake Watershed which includes Colpitt Lake and Williams Lake. The WLB are part of "Purcell's Cove Backlands" ... -
The ecology of transition
(COGnition (Eco-Farm & Garden), 1988)A popular account of scientific research on the processes involved in the transition of a mixed laying hen-grain farm In the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia from conventional to organic management. -
Evaluation of low external input, sustainable farming practices for livestock farms in Cumberland County
(REAP-Cumberland, Shinimicas, Nova Scotia, 1993-06-01)Existing livestock systems in Cumberland Co. rely mainly on grass, clover and spring cereals for home grown forage and grain. There are well known limitations to these systems on the fragipan or basil till soils which ... -
Faba bean: an alternative to soybean in Nova Scotia, Canada.
(Borkhauser Verlag: Basel, Boston, Stuttgart., 1982-01-01)For farmers in Nova Scotia who wish to be self-sufficient in animal feed, and in N fertilizer, the faba bean offers a number of advantages over soybean: (i) no special processing is required; (ii) nodulation is generally ... -
Farms as ecosystems
(University Extension Press, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 1999)Organic farming provides ecosystem services as well as food. The weakest points of organic farming systems are limited use of livestock and declining genetic resources. Organic farming has special research and service ... -
Fisheries Stock Assessment: an inductive science with the Logical form of Primitive Magic
(2010-01-20)Abstract. A logical analysis of the common fisheries models used in stock assessment has shown that they produce specific predictions with the logical form of existential statements, fail Karl Popper’s falsifiability ... -
Greenfacts Special Research Edition: The Oaks Experiments on Organic Management of Turf
(Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998-01)This Greenfacts is a summary of a 380 page research report titled The Oaks Experiments on Organic Management of Turfs. The research report documents in detail the results of a four year project for developing an organic ... -
Karl Popper’s organon and the world’s fisheries: fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit
(2006)Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in logic is true in psychology and scientific method ... -
Marine Resources of Kouchibouguac National Park
(Applied Ocean Systems Ltd., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1976-04-15)Kouchibouguac National Park is located on the east coast of New Brunswick, Canada It includes 25 kilometers of barrier islands/sand dunes which shelter three lagoons and face the Gulf of St. Lawrence on their seaward side. ... -
Marine Resources of Kouchibouguac National Park: Extended Summary
(Applied Ocean Systems Ltd., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1976-04-15)Kouchibouguac National Park is located on the east coast of New Brunswick, Canada It includes 25 kilometers of barrier islands/sand dunes which shelter three lagoons and face the Gulf of St. Lawrence on their seaward side. ... -
A note on the Aristotelian origin of Popper's demarcation criterion together with its application to Atlantic Canada's fisheries
(2012-03-26)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's demarcation criterion, the criterion he uses to distinguish an empirical science from its 'metaphysical' complement involves an interpretation of the classical theory of ... -
The Oaks Experiments on Organic Management of Turf: Final Industry Report
(Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., 1996-10-30)The Oaks experiments were designed to address practical questions about organic management of turfs (lawns, sports fields etc.), notably: (i) How do we use organic fertilizers and soil-building amendments on turf for maximum ... -
Observations on a mixed farm during the transition to biological husbandry
(2011-01-19)Tunwath is a mixed farm (laying hens-grains) located in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, in a cool humid temperate zone. It includes about 2100 laying hens, 35 hectares of field crops and additional garden, pasture, hay ... -
On-farm measurements of pH, electrical conductivity and nitrate in soil extracts for monitoring coupling and decoupling of nutrient cycles
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The Poverty of mathematical and existential truth: examples from fisheries science
(2011-06-27)Several years ago I suggested that the harvesting of our commercial fisheries could be improved if the non-falsifiable models of a fisheries science were to be replaced with the falsiable models of a fisheries economics. ...
