USGS Ecosystems Podcast Series - Outstanding in the Field
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The USGS Ecosystems Mission Area brings you Outstanding in the Field, an original podcast series that tells stories about our science, our adventures, and our efforts to better understand fish and wildlife and the ecosystems that support them.
Ecosystems Podcast Series Episode 2 artwork by Jeffrey Kemp. Image of Anya Metcalfe with two Grand Canyon Youth participants in Grand Canyon looking over a light trap (as described in the podcast). Image courtesy of Freshwaters Illustrated and USGS.
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Episode 2 - Citizen Science
Episode title: Citizen Science—Your Data in Action
Summary: This episode is our first to highlight USGS science along the Colorado River as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Powell Expedition, an exploration of the Green and Colorado Rivers that ended in the Grand Canyon. In this episode we’re talking about citizen science and getting the public involved in the scientific process of monitoring aquatic insects in the Colorado River near the Glen Canyon Dam. Citizen science efforts aren’t new; but, in this case, the results changed how part of a world-famous river flowed for a summer in 2018.
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Interviewee: Anya Metcalfe, USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Southwest Biological Science Center
Writer: Todd Wojtowicz, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
Narrator: Marisa Lubeck, USGS Public Affairs Specialist
Producer: Suzanna Soileau, USGS Ecosystems Mission Area
Music: The Green Hillside by Martin Fitzpatrick (used with permission).
Original artwork: Jeffrey Kemp
- Citizen Science Light Trapping in Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon Aquatic Ecology Web Application
- Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management (GCMRC Science)
- Highlighting the 150th Anniversary of the Powell Expedition
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