PODCAST | AAAS 2018 Live: Dr. Nalini Nadkarni on Ecology, Launching a Clothing Line and More

PODCAST | AAAS 2018 Live: Dr. Nalini Nadkarni on Ecology, Launching a Clothing Line and More

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In this episode Dr. Holly Summers, a plant biologist and current AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the US Department of Agriculture, speaks with Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, an ecologist at the University of Utah. Dr. Nadkarni begins with the story of how she

became interested in the forest canopy, and the delicate nature and importance of the canopy to a healthy tropical forest. They then discuss how her work has helped to inspire and develop non-traditional community outreach programs working with prison inmates, allowing inmates to contribute to the scientific process through meticulous restoration work involving plant and animal life. Last and probably most unexpectedly, Dr. Nadkarni describes

how she got inspired to launch a line of clothing that features botanically correct images of nature.

 

PARTICIPANTS

Host: Holly Summers, Ph.D., Plant Biology

2017-18 Executive Branch Fellow at USDA

 

Nalini Nadkarni, Ph.D., Ecology

Professor of Biology, University of Utah 

 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Carlos Faraco, Ph.D., Neuroscience

2016-18 Executive Branch Fellow at National Institutes of Justice

 

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Holly Summers

Holly is a plant biologist with an interdisciplinary background in pollination biology. 

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