Minority-Serving Institutions and Grant Review Representation
While numerous studies have described the funding discrepancies faced by scientists at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), there is a relative paucity of information available about MSI-based scient...
10 Feb 202239min
Resist–Accept–Direct, a Paradigm for Management
Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Global change increasingly propels ecosystems on strong trajectories toward irreversible ecological transformations. As once-familiar hist...
6 Jan 202233min
In Their Own Words: Thomas Lovejoy III (Republication)
The American institute of Biological Sciences, publisher of the BioScience Talks podcast, mourns the loss of visionary ecologist Thomas E. Lovejoy III. Dr. Lovejoy was the AIBS President in 1994. In 2...
30 Dec 202145min
Coral Reefs: Insults and Prospects
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 about his recent BioScience article, which details the...
16 Dec 202131min
Biodiversity Collections Enable Foundational and Data Skills
The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge in organismal biology have increasingly required com...
8 Dec 202141min
Disease Transmission: The Case of Sarcoptes Scabiei
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 Scott Carver, disease ecologist at the University o...
17 Nov 202125min
Values and Water Security in a Dry Era
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 Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the Univ...
27 Okt 202129min
Empowering Communities through Local Monitoring
Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the an...
13 Okt 202148min
