In this episode, we speak with Diana Wall, the Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, a Distinguished Biology Professor, and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University.
Show Notes
Diana H. Wall, is a globally celebrated ecologist with many accolades including being a member of Colorado's Women's Hall of Fame, Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and Distinguished Professor many times over. Just to name a few! She also has a mite and Antarctica valley named after her. Beginning her career she received her B.A in Biology at the University of Kentucky and then went on to earn her Ph.D. there in Plant Biology. Wall's work would take her much further than Kentucky though. With more than 25 years of research in Antarctica her interdisciplinary research has lead to the clarification of the relationship between soil ecosystems and climate change.
Currently Wall is a professor at Colorado State University's Department of Biology, a Senior Research Scientist for the Natural Resource Ecology Lab and Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Not only has she led the way for future scientists but continues to teach and inspire new generations.
Join us as we sit down and chat everything from past times in Antarctica, plant-parasitic nematodes, and so much more!
For more from Wall visit her lab's website here: https://walllab.colostate.edu/ or check out her latest tweets @DianaWallSoil.
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Thanks for listening!
References &Links
Sci Show - good intro to nematodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWzrlCBhCM
Fun facts about nematodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1m_20qh86I
40,000 year old nematodes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-
roundworms-allegedly-resurrected-russian-permafrost-180969782/
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/nematodes
Myrmeconema neotropicum article:
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/16_ants.shtml
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/antarctica-provides-ice-to-study-behavior-effects-in-astronauts
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26527129/
Johan van den Hoogen paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1418-6
Ghost Creature of Antarctica has survived 30 ice ages
Soil properties and nematode community composition:
http://nemaplex.ucdavis.edu/FerrisPublications/pdf%20files/150Sanchez%20et%20al%202006.
pdf
Picture a Scientist (movie): https://www.pictureascientist.com
U.S. Antarctic Program’s Sexual Assault and Harassment Needs Assessment:
https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305782&org=OPP
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120518369/antarctica-sexual-harassment-assault-nsf-report
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