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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}DD_8.png" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />What course could possibly teach you <em>everything</em> about any natural environment you walk into, from sampling soil to keying out wildflowers to identifying bird songs to correctly distinguishing animal tracks? Only one, Field Biology in Spring (Great Lakes Campus, May Term), taught by Calvin College Professor of Biology David Dornbos. Don&rsquo;t let David&rsquo;s area of specialization (MS, from The Ohio State University and PhD, from Iowa State University in crop production and physiology, of all things, after receiving his BS in Biology from Calvin) fool you. Although his current research and publications focus on plants (domestic, wild and invasive, with studies published in scientific journals like <em>Crop Management</em>, <em>Crop Science</em>, and <em>Canadian Journal of Plant Science</em>), David&rsquo;s natural curiosity and fascination with all things living and natural makes him the perfect instructor for a course requiring an enormous range of scientific and observational skills. David explains, &ldquo;Natural systems illustrate how food production systems <em>should </em>be constructed because natural systems are inherently sustainable.&nbsp; So it is deeply interesting to learn how these systems function and to think carefully how Christians should live, what we should eat, how we might use agroecological ideals to construct food production systems, to live out the dual command of Genesis 2:15 to &rsquo;serve&rsquo; and &rsquo;protect&rsquo; God&rsquo;s Creation.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
