Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn Their Own Words: Thomas Lovejoy III (Republication)
Episode 112
The American institute of Biological Sciences, publisher of the BioScience Talks podcast, mourns the loss of visionary ecologist Thomas E. Lovejoy II…
4 years, 8 months ago
Coral Reefs: Insults and Prospects
Episode 111
In this episode of BioScience Talks, we're joined by Dr. Michael Lesser, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. He's here to talk abo…
4 years, 8 months ago
Biodiversity Collections Enable Foundational and Data Skills
Episode 110
The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge i…
4 years, 8 months ago
Disease Transmission: The Case of Sarcoptes Scabiei
Episode 109
In this episode of BioScience Talks, we're joined by Liz Browne, who has bachelor of science degree with honors from the University of Tasmania, and …
4 years, 9 months ago
Values and Water Security in a Dry Era
Episode 108
In this episode of BioScience Talks, we're joined by previous guest Paolo D'Odorico, professor of hydrology and the Chair of the Department of Enviro…
4 years, 10 months ago
Empowering Communities through Local Monitoring
Episode 107
Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones …
4 years, 10 months ago
In Their Own Words: Nalini Nadkarni
Episode 106
This episode is the next in our oral history series, In Their Own Words. These pieces chronicle the stories of scientists who have made great contrib…
5 years ago
The Climate Emergency in a COVID Year
Episode 105
In a year marked by unprecedented flooding, deadly avalanches, and scorching heat waves and wildfires, the climate emergency's enormous cost—whether …
5 years ago
Blackologists and the Promise of Inclusive Sustainability
Episode 104
Historically, shared resources such as forests, fishery stocks, and pasture lands have often been managed with an aim toward averting "tragedies of t…
5 years, 1 month ago
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Viral Evolution, Vaccines, and Variants
Episode 103
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Charlie Fenster, Professor at South Dakota State University, Director of Oak Lake Field Station, and President o…
5 years, 2 months ago