Exploring Arizona Life Science Research and Biodiversity with the Tree of Life Web Project

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Explore Arizona biodiversity and life science research. Featuring the work of Arizona scientists, citizens, teachers, and learners, as well as the flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert.

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    • Sep 22, 2007 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 5m AVG DURATION
    • 19 EPISODES


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    Take a Spore Print with Biologist Katja Schulz

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2007


    Dr. Mike Rosenzweig Lecture for Science and Math Teachers Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2007


    An Interview with Ecologist Mike Rosenzweig: Exploring Reconciliation Ecology

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2007


    Learn how to collect, record, identify, and label arthropods that have fallen into a pitfall trap

    Mushroom Hunting on Mt. Lemmon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2007


    Learn how to collect, record, identify, and label arthropods that have fallen into a pitfall trap

    Exploring Local Arthropod Diversity, Part 2 Collecting Arthropods from Pitfall Traps

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2007


    Exploring Local Arthropod Diversity, Part 1 Creating Pitfall Traps

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2007


    Learn how to create pitfall traps for capturing and then documenting local arthropod diversity

    Tracking Urban Bird Diversity with the Tucson Bird Count

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2007


    Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2007


    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. Entomologists and UA Phd Students Kim Franklin and Chris Schmidt, and ToL Learning Materials Editor and Educator Lisa Schwartz spent some time in Chris's backyard observing, discussing and questioning Pogonomyremex behavior.

    Water Harvesting and Biodiversity Day 2: Planting!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2007


    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 techniques explored in this episode.

    Water Harvesting and Biodiversity, Sustainably Revegatating and Urban Landscape. Episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2007


    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 Headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.

    Ecobottle Exploration

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2007


    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 create this podcast!

    Odontomachus: An Ant with Amazing Mandibles

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2007


    The amazing Odontomachus is a groups of ants with mandbiles that can move faster than the blink of an eye!

    Bug Questions: Kim at Santa Cruz School

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2007


    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!

    Ants: Kim at Santa Cruz School

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2007


    Kim Franklin, Entomologist at the University of Arizona is interviewed by 5th graders as Santa Cruz School. First episode focuses on ants.

    Farmers Markets: Growing Community Around Local Food and Conservation Issues

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2006


    Blacklighting

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2006 6:05


    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 blacklighting.

    Bugs of the Month: Manduca rustica

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2006 4:03


    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 sphinx moth. The Manduca rustica has very large larva(caterpillars) and adults, and are important desert pollinators. Look out for them on your Desert Willow after the monsoon season!

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