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

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 of them already!) as well as how to get involved with the Tucson Bird Count (TBC). The TBC is a cooperative project begun by members of Tucson's science, conservation, and birding communities. Each year, TBC volunteers collect data on the abundances and distributions of bird species from hundreds of sites in and around the Tucson area.

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

Join biologist Kim Franklin in an interview with Ecologist Mike Rosenzweig, Professor and founder of the UA Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, author of Win-Win Ecology and Director of the Tumamoc Hill Research Station. This episode explores reconciliation ecology (how humans can live with and support biodiversity) and the species-area relationship (how to deal with the idea that as area increases, the number of species present, the diversity, also increases). You will also learn about how citizens can help to support biodiversity.

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 viable populations of organisms, such as the puma (mountain lion, cougar) in the wild.

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 of species diversity. Due to the length of the lecture, it is broken into two parts.

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