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Happy Birthday, Living Lab!

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Living Lab first aired on June 25th of last year. In our excitement about our fisheries coverage, The Long Haul, we completely missed our own first anniversary.

We're making it up now (better late than never, right?) by sharing a couple of our favorite interviews from our first year on the air. Enjoy, and thanks for a great first year!

Pteropods, Art, and Climate Change

Dr. Gareth Lawson is an assistant scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionwhere he studies the ecology of tiny marine snails called pteropods in hopes of understanding how they’re impacted by climate change. He’s also been collaborating with artists to raise the public profile of pteropods. We talked about his research, his lab's field blog, Charismatic Microfauna (a name his wife came up with), and his interest in connecting art and science. We even snuck in a bit of The Pteropod Song, which you'll be singing for days after you hear it.

http://youtu.be/nT0ODOa-u9Y

Barbie Fashion Designer, Biodiversity, and You

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Nathan Wilson - cataloging biodiversity

Nathan Wilson is master curator of Encyclopedia of Life and founder of Mushroom Observer, a communal, online field notebook that collects observations of fungi. Wilson is passionate about biodiversity, and about using the internet to connect people with diverse backgrounds and in disparate locations in order to gain a better understanding of the world around us.

Wilson's career path has been windy, to say the least. That makes for some great stories. There's a moment when Wilson explains how his time in Hollywood, working on online interactive games like MechWarrior and Barbie Fashion Designer, led to his current work on biodiversity and citizen science.

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