Earth, Environmental & Agricultural Sciences
Professor Daniel John Jackson – How Animals Fabricate Biominerals
Professor Daniel J. Jackson and his team at the University of Göttingen use snails and sponges as models to study how animals make biominerals, and to gain insight into how this ability first evolved. The cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow an animal to make...
Professor Suzie Currie – Coping With Stress In An Aquatic World
As high temperatures continue to set records around the globe, aquatic organisms are facing new environmental extremes. Freshwater and marine animals will either adapt to resulting changes in salinity, temperature and oxygen, or face mortality and possible extinction....
Professor John Vucetich – Forging A Healthy Relationship With Nature Through The Marriage Of Science And Ethics
Professor John Vucetich of Michigan Technological University spends much of his research life studying wolves in Isle Royale and Yellowstone National Parks. He is also deeply involved with carnivore conservation throughout North America – work that depends on the...
Professor Ken Sims – Understanding Volcanoes To Help Protect People
Geologist and volcanologist Professor Ken Sims and his colleagues from across the globe want to improve our understanding of active volcanoes in an effort to advance the science of volcanology. But they also want to protect the lives of people living near these...
Dr Jesper W. Gjerloev – Earth Interactions With Space – Do We Finally Understand Them?
Space scientist Dr Jesper Gjerloev and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, are part of a world-wide consortium of scientists studying the Earth’s interactions with near Space. Mother Earth’s Magnetic...
Professor John L. Hoogland – Prairie Dogs Are Charming And Cute, But They Are Also Serial Killers
When John Hoogland first visited a prairie dog colony as a young graduate student, he said aloud to himself, ‘I could study these animals for the next 10 years.’ Forty-four years later, John is still studying prairie dogs, and he still marvels about the sometimes...
Dr Raymond W. Schmitt – Uncovering The Connection Between Ocean Salinity And Terrestrial Rainfall
For the first time, scientists have shown that salinity levels in the ocean’s surface can be a predictor of rainfall on land. Dr Raymond Schmitt and his colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts used records spanning 60 years to discover...
American Geophysical Union – Space Physics And Aeronomy
The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the primary professional organisation for over 2800 scientists, engineers and space weather forecasters across the globe who are actively engaged in trying to understand and...
William Hunt Ralph Hartley – Breaking Free The Stones Of The Past
Professor William Hunt and Ralph Hartley are both experienced archaeologists and anthropologists within the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They have recently returned from the islands of Southeast Alaska, having set out to identify...
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild – Bats In Translation
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild and her group at the Free University Berlin study the acoustic communication and social behaviour of wild bats to understand the evolutionary interplay of social and vocal complexity, the functional significance of culturally transmitted song...
Professor Joyce Van Eck – Improving Crops By Genetic Engineering And Targeted Genome Editing
Located at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent affiliate of Cornell University, the Van Eck lab explores novel methods for major crop improvement possibilities offered by a powerful gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9. Portrait of a bioengineer Professor...
Professor Nathan E. Rank | Professor Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff – Exploring Evolution By Studying Beetles Living On The Edge
Professors Nathan Rank and Elizabeth Dahlhoff, along with their collaborators and students, explore the question of evolutionary responses to changes in climate by studying a small, native beetle that lives two miles high in the mountains of Eastern California....
Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster – The Seeds We Sow And The Grain We Reap
Much of the world’s population is dependent on just a few crops, with blight and disease an ever-present threat. Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, after many years researching plant defences against pathogenic attack, aims to open the door to...
Professor Karl Forchhammer – Awakening Sleeping Bacteria
Professor Karl Forchhammer and his colleagues analyse how cyanobacteria can survive and recover from long periods of starvation. They use the model strain Synechocystis PCC 6803, a non-diazotrophic, unicellular cyanobacterium. When deprived of a nitrogen source, the...
Professor Nita Sahai – Geochemical Beginnings: How Minerals May Have Played A Key Role In The Origins Of Life
Professor Nita Sahai, of the University of Akron, studies the geochemistry underlying protocell formation and evolution, with a view to understanding the origins of life. This fascinating research is applicable to understanding both how life started on our own planet,...
Dr Gerald Gabriel Dr Thomas Burschil – What Seismic Imaging Tells Us About The Mysteries Of The Tannwald Basin
A mutual interest in geological and geophysical processes within the Quaternary epoch motivated Drs Gerald Gabriel and Thomas Burschil at the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG) to study overdeepened valleys and basins, using seismic imaging to gain a...
Dr Mathias Currat – Simulating genetic patterns in European human evolution
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The Small Business Administration
Small businesses are the creators of jobs and the driving force behind the US economy. Recognising this truth, the US government established the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1953 in order to help Americans start and develop their own small businesses. As...
Dr Netta Dorchin – Tiny ecosystem engineers diversity and evolution of gall midges
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Professor Lindsay M. Schoenbohm – Discovering how mountains grow
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Dr Hitomi Nakamura – Understanding the processes of the multiple subduction plate boundary around Japan
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Dr Nicolas C. Friggens – Futuristic Farming
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Professor Ehud Meron – When physics and ecology unite
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Dr Nicholas Brokaw & Dr Sheila Ward – Cooperation reveals legacy of ancient land use
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Sofiane Zalouk & Johan Rey – Capturing the forgotten source of CO2
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Dr. Celia Chen – Mercury in Seafood: What the Madhatter didn’t know
A childhood spent between smokestacks and alongside beaches led Dr. Celia Chen to a long and distinguished career investigating marine ecosystem pollution. Tell us about yourself, what brought you into this field? I wanted to be an environmental scientist since I was...
Dr. Elke Genersch – Molecular Perspectives On Bee Pathogens
With a solid career in human molecular medicine in her back pocket, Dr. Elke Genersch decided to put her skills to the test in another organism – the honeybee. Almost 15 years ago you decided to change the focus of your research from human to bee diseases. What...