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Looking for the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Switzerland’s Jura mountains is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Although they were re-introduced to the country in the 1970s, there are only about 100 alive today. Wild Talk took to the hills with wildlife biologist Fridolin Zimmermann to check the camera traps set up in the Jura to monitor the population. To listen, click here. To take a peek at the lynx favourite whereabouts in the Jura and the camera traps, see below .

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The University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau (Alaska’s capital) is the recipient of federal NASA and NOAA grants to develop a digital network to monitor climate change on the Juneau Icefield. UAS is the only university in North America with access to several glacial watersheds. The UAS SEAMONSTER (Southeast Alaska Monitoring Network for Science Telecommunications Education and Research) program gives undergraduates extraordinary opportunities to engage in cutting edge research.

A comprehensive network of communications infrastructure, mobile sensors with moving data streams, existing weather stations and Global Positioning System measurements …

UAS Environmental Science faculty and students were part of nearly a dozen presentations at the American Geophysical Union meeting December 15-19, 2008 in San Francisco. Physics professor Matt Heavner presented an interactive “melt model” and virtual tour of watersheds and glaciers in the SEAMONSTER sensor web project.* Heavner started attending the conference as an undergraduate, and has not missed the yearly event since 1993. The 2008 gathering at Moscone Center drew more than 16,000 scientists and academics from around the world.
Photo: UAS Environmental Science senior Josh Jones.
“It’s overwhelming, there is …

By Nick Korzen

When I came to Juneau, Alaska in January of 2007, I never thought I would get such a great opportunity. Thanks to UAS professors Matt Heavner and Eran Hood who took me on the SEAMONSTER (South East Alaska Monitoring Network for Science, Telecommunications, Education, and Research) team.
Within the first couple weeks of work, I was building weather stations and solar panel mounts, which were then deployed in the surrounding Juneau area. Since these areas are somewhat remote, I was able to take many helicopter trips to various …

By Kevin Kirshner
This is the first of a three-part series about Breakfast, Obesity & Juvenile Diabetes. Please take the time to write a comment or relate some personal experience — help us make a connection through your stories.
So, Why is Breakfast So Important?
Confused? Well you’re not alone. Over 50% of people regularly skip eating breakfast. At one time or another everyone reading this has done it, and left home for school or work without taking just a few minutes to start the day properly, with …

By Alexis Gambis
On Jan. 28, TalkingScience presented a panel on “Science 2.0: Science Outreach Options in an Online World.” The discussion focused on methods of reaching new audiences for science via both new and old tools, as well as how to develop a career in science outreach.
Panel Moderator: Ann Marie Cunningham

Ann Marie Cunningham is executive director of TalkingScience, the nonprofit partner of Science Friday, the weekly live news/talk program on science and science policy broadcast on NPR. TalkingScience’s mission is to attract new audiences, especially young people, …

On Friday February 13, people will have the opportunity to participate in a large-scale science project. You don’t need fancy equipment, quantitative prowess or background. Just look outside the window and count birds for ten minutes. That’s right, you heard me. The Great Backyard Bird Count will be taking place from the 13th-16th. The goal is to engage people in the scientific process and enable researchers to acquire data about bird populations that would be impossible to get with isolated research teams. Who cares about birds? Well, if you’ve ever …

By Meredith Barrett
The first couple of days I spent getting to know the place and exploring the trails with Rebecca, who’s been very helpful in introducing me to the possibilities here. At Kirindy I’m going to focus on the experimental component of my lemur health project. Experiment you say? Like white lab coats and cooking up chemicals? Not quite, but I am trying to make it a controlled study in the midst of field conditions that are hard to control.
I’m interested in how the intense dry season here in …

By Meredith Barrett

That’s right, I’m taking the temperature…of one of the smallest primates on earth. It’s important to monitor how the mouse lemurs are doing during the evaluation, and it’s also quite interesting to see how their body temperatures range, especially since mouse lemurs are capable of daily torpor during the colder winter season. We’ve seen body temperatures that range from 92.7° to 98.7° Fahrenheit so far.

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By KL Bates
Working with Indris last summer definitely captured my interest. They are beautiful, graceful and stately lemurs, and they possess a great importance to the Malagasy people. Tradition states that the Indri, or Babakoto in Malagasy, is the “grandfather of the forest,” an ancestor to the inhabitants of Madagascar.
Click to hear the eerily beautiful call of the Indri. Groups of Indri use this call to communicate and demarcate their territory.