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Cheese and disease: how bacteria survive long term
This week we have Andrea Domen, a MS student in Food Science and Technology co-advised by Dr. Joy Waite-Cusic and Dr. Jovana Kovacevic, joining us to discuss her research investigating some...
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Digging Deep: what on earth is there to learn from dirt?
There’s a big difference between human time and Earth–or soil–time. It’s what makes climate impacts so difficult to imagine, and climate solutions so challenging to fully realize. Take it from someone...
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Fighting for your French fries
This week’s guest is Alexander Butcher, a second-year master’s student in the Department of Crop and Soil Science. Alexander has a wide variety of interests related to minimizing food waste and...
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Bees get Degrees
We have a special guest this week on Inspiration Dissemination, our own Dr. Grace Deitzler (she/they) who is graduating this term with a PhD in Microbiology! Grace was on an episode of ID earlier in...
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The Lost Loggers: the Erasure and Exclusion of the Black Logging Community...
You don’t have to look hard to find signs of the long legacy of logging in Oregon. It’s evident in everything from the names of local sports teams and businesses to the clear cutting spread across...
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Poopy predators: Assessing carnivore diet and population dynamics via...
Ellen with a wolf den in Alaska Getting to the bottom of what top predators in an ecosystem are eating is critical to understand how they may be influencing dynamics in the entire system and food web....
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Forever Chemicals: How can we better detect PFAS?
Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, are widely used, long lasting chemicals, components of which break down very slowly over time. This is why you may have heard these substances...
View ArticleTaking Inspiration from Life: Short stories on why we believe what we believe
This week we are chatting with new ID host Selene Ross on her path to earning an MFA in fiction in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Inspired by her upbringing and life in northern...
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The who eats whom of the Pacific
Trophic ecology studies how energy flows through food webs; basically who is eating whom in an ecosystem. Understanding the structure of feeding relationships among species in a system helps us to...
View ArticleThe Memoir of El
This week on ID we interview El Rose, a talented first year MFA student of non-fiction in the School of Writing, Literature and Film. El draws on their background growing up in rural Arkansas to write...
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My new neighbor might be a ghost (shrimp)
Our next guest is Matt Vaughan, a third year PhD student in Integrative Biology working with Prof. Sarah Henkel in the Benthic Ecology Lab. Matt originally hails from Melbourne, Australia and recently...
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Writing for Discovery
Natalie Van Gelder wants to teach writing, but not necessarily to people who want to write. The first-year MFA student in creative nonfiction recognizes writing as a tool for discovery–particularly...
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Exploding Cheeses and Microbes at Work
For those of us who consume dairy products, we often don’t give much thought to the trials and tribulations that had to be faced to get that product on the grocery shelves. It’s probably a fair...
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Sim like a Fish
Our next guest is Lauren Diaz, a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Fisheries , Wildlife and Conservation Sciences. Lauren is advised by Prof. Jim Peterson and focuses on the population...
View ArticleArtificial, Intelligent–Safe?
Jose Aguilar is not here to help robots take over the world. In fact, the first year PhD student studying artificial intelligence says he’s actually working on the opposite–to ensure that AI systems...
View ArticleOverturning myths about poverty through storytelling
“The individual who grows up in this culture has a strong feeling of fatalism, helplessness, dependence and inferiority” says Oscar Lewis, expounding upon his theory of the “Culture of Poverty” in a...
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Plankton: The smallest of organisms require the largest of boats
Did you know that jellyfish are plankton? That’s right, they’re not just abstruse microscopic organisms (although many of them are). For example, did you know that the size difference between plankton...
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A surprise trip to the coldest continent on Earth!
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we had a very impromptu guest join us for our show on February 18th. Rachel Kaplan is a 4th year PhD student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric...
View ArticleThe Spectacular Humpback Whales of Bahia De Banderas
Several species of humpback whales coalesce off the coast of Mexico to breed every Winter. Near Puerto Vallarta, in Bahia de Banderas (Banderas Bay), whale watching tours are abundant and the primary...
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Sniffing for science
On our last episode for winter term, we interviewed Kayla Fratt, who is currently a PhD student in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences. However, aside from being a...
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