Podcasts by Exploring Arizona Life Science Research and Biodiversity with the Tree of Life Web Project
Exploring Arizona Life Science Research and Biodiversity with the Tree of Life Web Project. The series focuses on Sonoran Desert biodiversity and research at the University of Arizona. The Bugs of the Month sub-series features entomologist Carl Olson. The work of the general community, teachers and learners is also showcased, and we welcome contributors from all walks of life, as well as features that highlight the connections between cultural and biological diversity.
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Get Involved in Sonoran Desert Birding from 2022-02-22T08:11:49.600691
Join Lisa Schwartz, ToL Learning Materials Editor, and Vivian and Aleck MacKinnon, Tucson Bird Count volunteers, as they talk about the three things you need to become a birder (hint, you have most...
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Take a Spore Print with Biologist Katja Schulz from 2022-02-22T08:11:49.597444
Learn how to collect, record, identify, and label arthropods that have fallen into a pitfall trap
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Dr. Melanie Culver on Conservation Genetics from 2022-02-22T08:11:49.595808
r. Melanie Culver discusses her own research on pumas, research on the Madagascar fish-eagle, as well as "sky island" bears of Arizona. She illustrates how conservation genetics can help to keep vi...
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Dr. Mike Rosenzweig Lecture for Science and Math Teachers Part 2 from 2022-02-22T08:11:49.594653
Ecologist Mike Rosenzweig, Professor and founder of the UA Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, lectures to middle and high school teachers from Tucson, AZ on reconciliation ecology and loss o...
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Mushroom Hunting on Mt. Lemmon from 2007-06-18T14:56:08
Join entomologist and amateur mycologist Katja Schulz, ToL Managing Editor, and Lisa Schwartz, ToL Learning Materials Editor, for a foray on Mt. Lemmon during the monsoon season.
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Exploring Local Arthropod Diversity, Part 2 Collecting Arthropods from Pitfall Traps from 2007-06-18T14:56:08
Learn how to collect, record, identify, and label arthropods that have fallen into a pitfall trap
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Exploring Local Arthropod Diversity, Part 1 Creating Pitfall Traps from 2007-06-18T14:53:39
Learn how to create pitfall traps for capturing and then documenting local arthropod diversity
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Tracking Urban Bird Diversity with the Tucson Bird Count from 2007-06-18T14:50:41
Tracking urban birds in Arroyo Chico with the Tucson Bird Count
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Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex from 2007-05-01T10:58:59
Arizona has the most ant diversity in the USA, with over 300 known species. This video profiles Pogonomyremex, or "pogos" commonly found in the Sonoran Desert of the Southwestern United States. Ent...
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Water Harvesting and Biodiversity Day 2: Planting! from 2007-03-19T23:44:45
Join Brad Lancaster and volunteers planting native Sonoran Desert plants to re-vegetate an urban landscape in Tucson, Arizona. Curb cutting and terraced and mulched basins are two permaculture tech...
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Water Harvesting and Biodiversity, Sustainably Revegatating and Urban Landscape. Episode 1 from 2007-03-11T20:43:10
University of Arizona Students, UA peace corps fellows and volunteers joined Brad Lancaster, Tucson permaculture expert, for a workshop on water harvesting on the grounds of the Nature Conservancy ...
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Ecobottle Exploration from 2007-02-19T13:38:01
Jeff Hartman and students in his 9th grade class at City High School in Tucson, Arizona share the fun challenges and opportunities of building and observing ecobottles. The class also helped to cre...
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Odontomachus: An Ant with Amazing Mandibles from 2007-02-01T12:59:23
The amazing Odontomachus is a groups of ants with mandbiles that can move faster than the blink of an eye!
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Bug Questions: Kim at Santa Cruz School from 2007-01-25T15:44:03
Kim Franklin, entomologist at University of Arizona, is interviewed by 5th grade students at Santa Cruz School. Episode 2 is on questions about all sorts of bugs!
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Ants: Kim at Santa Cruz School from 2007-01-25T15:34:59
Kim Franklin, Entomologist at the University of Arizona is interviewed by 5th graders as Santa Cruz School. First episode focuses on ants.
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Farmers Markets: Growing Community Around Local Food and Conservation Issues from 2006-12-05T14:53:22
Farmers Markets: Growing Community Around Local Food and Conservation Issues
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Blacklighting from 2006-12-01T16:20:34
Graduate students studying systematic entomology, the study of insect diversity, accompany professor Goggy Davidowitz on a nightime field trip to collect insects using a technique called blacklight...
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Blacklighting from 2006-12-01T16:20:34
Graduate students studying systematic entomology, the study of insect diversity, accompany professor Goggy Davidowitz on a nightime field trip to collect insects using a technique called blacklight...
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Blacklighting from 2006-12-01T16:20:34
Graduate students studying systematic entomology, the study of insect diversity, accompany professor Goggy Davidowitz on a nightime field trip to collect insects using a technique called blacklight...
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Bugs of the Month: Manduca rustica from 2006-11-21T01:51:11
Bugs of the Month: Manduca rustica Learn about the large and beautiful Manduca rustica, or the Rustic sphinx moth, from larva to pupa and adult. Manduca rustica is often referred to as a hawk of sp...
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