Hi, I am Joe Tull. I am a first year student at Bucknell University in the class of 2017. I am undecided in the School of Management. I am also considering pursuing a biology major and then applying to optometry school. I also have an interest in economics. I am currently enrolled in a course on the history of ecology and I plan to make contributions to Wikipedia accordingly. I am excited to work with others in the class to provide clear, objective articles to enhance readers' understandings of ecology. At Bucknell, I am in the Presidential Fellows Program doing research with Dr. Reeder.
At Bucknell, I am currently taking a general chemistry course and I plan on taking more science courses in the future, including biology, physics, and organic chemistry courses. My first year writing seminar course focused on scientific discoveries and inventions and how scientific anomalies led new paradigms to replace old ones, so I have had some experience writing in a scientific context. I have not had much formal education about the environment yet, so I look forward to learning more about the subject. Also, I have not yet taken a history course at Bucknell, but the study of history interests me as well.
Future Contributions edit
In the future, I plan to contribute to Wikipedia by evaluating and editing an article that either have not been created yet or that need to be improved. My chosen article will be related to the history of ecology because of my enrollment in the History of Ecology course at Bucknell University. Potential options for my chosen article include the following:
I have decided upon working on the following article extensively:
Arctic ecology: I want to edit this article because it is still very short and surely lacking crucial. For one thing, this article has no pictures at all, and there are definitely pictures of arctic ecology that would contribute well to this page's effectiveness. The article only mentions the different plants and animals found in these regions, and I believe that more should be said about these organisms and how they relate to their environment. I think that it is fascinating that there is life in the arctic regions despite how fiercely cold and seemingly inhospitable these regions seem to be, and providing access to information about these regions could likely benefit the study of biology as a whole. Therefore, this article is important for Wikipedia; it discusses one of the main types of ecosystems in the world, and it does not go into nearly enough detail.