Biodiversity Resilience Network
By BiRN
At the Biodiversity Resilience Network (BiRN), we are always looking for new opportunities for outreach. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the Resilience and Sustainability podcast. Each week, our host Robyn McCann will be speaking to a faculty member involved with the initiative to look at how their research promotes ecological resilience.
Biodiversity Resilience NetworkApr 09, 2020
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Geographical Fingerprint and Tracking Seafood Provenance
Here, we interview BiRN postdoctoral research Dr. Kevin Cazelles that outlines a novel way to use multiple biotracers (components of the physical world that have distinct signatures that can be "traced"; e.g. fatty acids, stable isotopes) as a mean to fingerprint where organisms originate from. In the global world of seafood trade, where fish are moved rapidly and often without information, such an advance promises to significantly aid seafood sustainability.
Dec 08, 202011:43
Connectedness & Ecological Entanglement ft. Kevin McCann
In Episode 2 of the podcast, we talk to Kevin McCann, a mathematical ecologist at the University of Guelph, about an upcoming article he has written for The Conversation. In the article, "Connectedness in the Age of Ecological Entanglement", Dr. McCann looks at how the global outbreak of coronavirus has resulted from an increasingly interconnected world. Furthermore, Dr. McCann discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has analogues in the ecological world with phenomena like "dead zones", i.e., how run-off from agriculture results in algae blooms that harm aquatic ecosystems hundreds to thousands of kilometres away. Lastly, Dr. McCann highlights the good work done by organizations like ALUS to address these issues.
May 12, 202015:23
Supply Chains, COVID-19 and the Food Dilemma ft. Evan Fraser
In this pilot episode, Robyn McCann speaks to geographer Evan Fraser about an article of his recently published in The Conversation. In the article, Fraser discusses how the covid-19 outbreak demonstrates the instability inherent in over-reliance on global supply chains for food. Furthermore, Fraser discusses how an increasing move to “eat local” might make citizens more resilient amid future disruptions to the global economy through things like climate change.
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