Ranked #1
Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems
Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems
Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems by University of Vermont
28 Feb 2018
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34mins
Ranked #2
Bill Keeton & Garrett Meigs: Global Analysis of Old-Growth Forests
Bill Keeton & Garrett Meigs: Global Analysis of Old-Growth Forests
Forest ecologists Bill Keeton and Garret Meigs (University of Vermont) are leading the first ever global analysis of tem... Read more
24 Feb 2016
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56mins
Ranked #3
Chuck Ross: Getting to Clean Water While Growing Agriculture - How and Why
Chuck Ross: Getting to Clean Water While Growing Agriculture - How and Why
Vermont is struggling with two iconic and important resources which contribute to our economy, sense of place and qualit... Read more
26 Sep 2018
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29mins
Ranked #4
Whitney Lash-Marshall: Collaboration Key For Conservation Solutions
Whitney Lash-Marshall: Collaboration Key For Conservation Solutions
Whitney Lash-Marshall (SUNY) explores how to overcome the challenges of working across scholarly disciplines and researc... Read more
20 Nov 2015
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33mins
Ranked #5
Samuel Scarpino: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: How Poverty Impacts Public Health
Samuel Scarpino: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: How Poverty Impacts Public Health
Poverty is one of the most important casual factors of lower population health. In this talk, Sam will discuss our under... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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30mins
Ranked #6
Molly Brown: Spatial Data and Environmental-Human Health Studies
Molly Brown: Spatial Data and Environmental-Human Health Studies
Molly Brown (University of Maryland) uses big data and satellite remote sensing to track how changing climates impact nu... Read more
19 Nov 2015
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29mins
Ranked #7
Rebecca Diehl: Investigating Interactions in Plants, Water, & Sediment Models of Riparian Ecosystems
Rebecca Diehl: Investigating Interactions in Plants, Water, & Sediment Models of Riparian Ecosystems
Shifts to the climate and the way in which water resources are managed in the Southwestern US will alter flow and sedime... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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28mins
Ranked #8
Eric Roy: Phosphorus Frontiers on a Finite Planet
Eric Roy: Phosphorus Frontiers on a Finite Planet
Phosphorus is essential to life on Earth and frequently limits the productivity of ecosystems. This seminar will be focu... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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30mins
Ranked #9
An Economist & Ecologist Walk Into A Bar (And Discuss the Future of the Planet)
An Economist & Ecologist Walk Into A Bar (And Discuss the Future of the Planet)
Vermont Public Radio host Jane Lindholm moderates a public dialogue on sustainability at UVM with ecologist Andrew Balmf... Read more
10 Nov 2015
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #10
Bryan Foster: Assessing Audit Impact and Thoroughness of VCS Forest Carbon Offset Projects
Bryan Foster: Assessing Audit Impact and Thoroughness of VCS Forest Carbon Offset Projects
Voluntary markets transacted over $66 million USD of forest carbon offsets internationally in 2016 and over 99% of those... Read more
9 Apr 2018
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35mins
Ranked #11
Nick Richardson: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in Vermont
Nick Richardson: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in Vermont
Nick Richardson of Vermont Land Trust (VLT) speaks on the emerging opportunity of forest carbon offsets in Vermont. VLT ... Read more
20 Mar 2019
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28mins
Ranked #12
Mohamed Esham: Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector in Sri Lanka
Mohamed Esham: Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector in Sri Lanka
The talk will cover the climate change impacts on agriculture sector especially on food crops and tea. I will be talking... Read more
30 Oct 2018
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35mins
Ranked #13
Lizzy Pope: Encouraging Healthier Decisions Using Behavioral Economics
Lizzy Pope: Encouraging Healthier Decisions Using Behavioral Economics
This talk will discuss the role of behavioral economics in food and exercise choices. We'll discuss different incentive ... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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36mins
Ranked #14
Donna Rizzo & John Hanley: Fighting Chagas Disease with Big Data
Donna Rizzo & John Hanley: Fighting Chagas Disease with Big Data
Chagus Disease is a tropical parasitic disease that affects more than 10 million people in Latin America. Donna Rizzo an... Read more
24 Feb 2016
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1hr 1min
Ranked #15
Bob Bartlett: Democratic Environmental Governance: Rights Thinking
Bob Bartlett: Democratic Environmental Governance: Rights Thinking
Successful democratic environmental governance requires the development of robust systems of environmental rights--but n... Read more
4 Oct 2018
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52mins
Ranked #16
Andrew Balmford: Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
Andrew Balmford: Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
Is there any good news about the environment? Yes, says Andrew Balmford (Cambridge University). The author and Royal Soc... Read more
10 Nov 2015
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35mins
Ranked #17
Francisco Alpizar: Are Resource Conserving Technologies a Win-Win?
Francisco Alpizar: Are Resource Conserving Technologies a Win-Win?
Resource conserving technologies are regarded in policy documents and multilateral agreements as win-win solutions that ... Read more
7 Feb 2019
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32mins
Ranked #18
Marcia Macedo: Amazon in Transition: An Integrated Understanding
Marcia Macedo: Amazon in Transition: An Integrated Understanding
As global demand for commodity crops grows, so does pressure on tropical regions, which contain the world's largest rema... Read more
19 Nov 2015
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30mins
Ranked #19
Sheila Reddy: It Isn't Easy Being Green: Using Insights on Human Behavior for Conservation
Sheila Reddy: It Isn't Easy Being Green: Using Insights on Human Behavior for Conservation
Identifying the appropriate approaches to influence human behavior and decisions is a major challenge for conservation. ... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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26mins
Ranked #20
Jane Adams: Visual Storytelling
Jane Adams: Visual Storytelling
Exploring a complex network across macro and micro scales means qualifying systemic trends with unique anecdotes. Data v... Read more
6 Dec 2018
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29mins