Coming of age in 1970’s Chile, ecologist Ricardo Rozzi reflects on the social and environmental issues caused by the political climate, plus recounts how a near death experience impacted the course of his research.
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Laura Meyerson: Science Fueled by Passion
Fueled by her passion for the environment and by way of a career in food styling, Laura Meyerson shares her unique journey to becoming an ecologist.
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Laura Meyerson is a Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the Department of Natural Resources Science where she studies invasive species and ecological restoration.
Kirsten Grorud-Colvert: An Unexpected Encounter
Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, a marine ecologist, remembers a surprising and formative experience she had on a dive as an early career researcher.
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Kirsten Grorud-Colvert is a marine ecologist at Oregon State University, where she has studied ocean organisms in the Oregon nearshore, the Florida Keys, and California’s Catalina Island, along with other marine systems from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean.
Karin Bodewits: The PhD Delusion
Karin Bodewits tells a humorous but tragic story about the reality of postgrad life.
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Karin is the author of the also humorous but tragic novel about postgrad life, You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion.(Springer, 2017)
Elisa Schaum: A Mainly True Story About Science
Elisa Schaum describes her experience as the only scientist in a family of eclectic artists, and demonstrates why art and science are more similar than we might think.
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Elisa Schaum is an oceanographer turned evolutionary biologist that investigates what makes some phytoplankton populations better at evolving under climate change than others. (Read more here)
***Note from Elisa:
Confessions of a non-native speaker: it was only after the story telling session that I realised that to most native English speakers, ‘gipsy’ is a slur that should not be used without permission by the person that is being talked about. As this story is in its essence a love letter to my crazy artist family, the word was not meant to be read as a slur but is just the word that is, in translation, closest to the way that my family describes themselves.