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

Lisa Schwartz

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 B...

Episodes

19 episodes

Get Involved in Sonoran Desert Birding

Take a Spore Print with Biologist Katja Schulz

Sep 22, 2007

Take a Spore Print with Biologist Katja Schulz

Take a Spore Print with Biologist Katja Schulz

Sep 22, 2007

An Interview with Ecologist Mike Rosenzweig: Exploring Reconciliation Ecology

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

Aug 29, 2007

Dr. Melanie Culver on Conservation Genetics

Learn about conservation genetics

Aug 29, 2007

Dr. Mike Rosenzweig Lecture for Science and Math Teachers Part 2

Learn about reconciliation ecology and loss of species diversity

Aug 29, 2007

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

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

Jun 18, 2007

Mushroom Hunting on Mt. Lemmon

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

Jun 18, 2007

Exploring Local Arthropod Diversity, Part 1 Creating Pitfall Traps

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

Jun 18, 2007

Tracking Urban Bird Diversity with the Tucson Bird Count

Tracking urban birds in Arroyo Chico with the Tucson Bird Count

Jun 18, 2007

Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex

Arizona has the most ant diversity in the USA, with over 300 known species. This video profiles Pogonomyremex, or "pogos" commonly found in...

May 1, 2007

Water Harvesting and Biodiversity Day 2: Planting!

Join Brad Lancaster and volunteers planting native Sonoran Desert plants to re-vegetate an urban landscape in Tucson, Arizona. Curb cutting...

Mar 20, 2007

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

University of Arizona Students, UA peace corps fellows and volunteers joined Brad Lancaster, Tucson permaculture expert, for a workshop on w...

Mar 12, 2007

Ecobottle Exploration

Jeff Hartman and students in his 9th grade class at City High School in Tucson, Arizona share the fun challenges and opportunities of buildi...

Feb 19, 2007

Odontomachus: An Ant with Amazing Mandibles

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

Feb 1, 2007

Bug Questions: Kim at Santa Cruz School

Kim Franklin, entomologist at University of Arizona, is interviewed by 5th grade students at Santa Cruz School. Episode 2 is on questions ab...

Jan 25, 2007

Ants: Kim at Santa Cruz School

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

Jan 25, 2007

Farmers Markets: Growing Community Around Local Food and Conservation Issues

Farmers Markets: Growing Community Around Local Food and Conservation Issues

Dec 5, 2006

Blacklighting

Graduate students studying systematic entomology, the study of insect diversity, accompany professor Goggy Davidowitz on a nightime field tr...

6:05Dec 1, 2006

Bugs of the Month: Manduca rustica

Bugs of the Month: Manduca rustica Learn about the large and beautiful Manduca rustica, or the Rustic sphinx moth, from larva to pupa and ad...

4:03Nov 21, 2006