Inspiration Dissemination

Inspiration Dissemination

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Inspiration Dissemination episodes

  • Erin Abernathy Aquatic Invertebrates: Why You Should Give a Dam.
    Our guest this week, Erin Abernethy PhD candidate from the department of Integrative Biology, is investigating the community structure (the number of species or individuals of each species) of freshwater aquatic invertebrates downstream of dams. These invertebrates have adapted to the native conditions of their river ecosystem, and major disturbances, such as a change in the flow of a river from a dam, can change the community of organisms downstream. If dams decrease the diversity of invertebrates downstream, then they may also decrease the diversity of ecosystem services offered by the invertebrate community.
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    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    33 min
  • Connor Yates How Many Robots Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
    Connor Yates is a native Oregonian and a Robotics PhD student in the College of Engineering. He studies artificial intelligence and machine learning by giving robots a task to complete without instructions. Over thousands of iterations and learned group-behavior, robots can learn how to organically solve problems. Who knows, maybe they’ll learn how to put pants on both legs at a time.
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    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    35 min
  • Sarah Kelly When Paths Cross: The Intersection of Art, Science and Humanities on the Discovery Trail
    Sarah Kelly is a MA candidate in the Environmental Arts and Humanities program in the College of Liberal Arts at OSU. Sarah is working with other researchers to provide a more holistic educational experience for high school students by connecting them with the forest though art, imagination, critical thinking and reflection.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
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    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    33 min
  • Sophie Wensman How Can Humans Help Oysters Adapt to Stresses from Ocean Acidification?
    Sophie Wensman is a 2nd year PhD student examining the effects of ocean acidification on oyster health off the Oregon coast. Oysters are a multi-million dollar industry in Oregon and in 2007 there was a massive die-off in Netarts Bay that left growers scrambling to figure out the cause; Sophie sheds light on her ongoing research sites and ways to potentially keep the industry thriving. She is also an ocean chemist who is able to use naturally occurring Uranium in oceans and correlate that with the Uranium concentration in oyster shells to re-create past ocean conditions.
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    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
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    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    39 min
  • Susan Rowe Are Touch Tanks Touching Lives?
    Susan Rowe is a PhD candidate with the Graduate School's interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences program studying free-choice learning - or learning that occurs in informal environments. Specifically, Susan's research seeks to better quantify and understand how interacting with live animal exhibits at zoos and aquariums impacts visitors thoughts on conservation.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
    facebook: www.facebook.com/InspirationDissemination/
    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    36 min
  • Julia Grace Klinges Small Differences Have Big Consequences to Keep the Oceans Happy
    Grace Klinges just finished a diving expedition off the Coast of Papua New Guinea where a natural CO2 seep acidifies the reef and changes the ecosystem so much that fish avoid the area. Less than 60meters away the ocean chemistry returns to normal conditions and there is an incredible amount of reef diversity shows by colorful corals. Using this relatively small area that mimics future ocean acidification scenarios, Grace is able to examine which organisms are the most robust to the rapidly changing ocean chemistry and hopefully find out how they interact and save our coral ecosystems.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
    facebook: www.facebook.com/InspirationDissemination/
    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    32 min
  • Terrah Owens It’s a Bird Eat Bird World
    Terrah Owens from Animal and Rangeland Sciences studies threats to the western US native bird, Greater Sage Grouse. Specifically, Terrah compares Grouse populations in areas that have been burned by wildfire, areas where ravens have been removed, and areas of high fuel load from invasive annual grasses.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
    facebook: www.facebook.com/InspirationDissemination/
    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    35 min
  • Nicole Hams Exploring a Protein’s Turf with TIRF
    Nicole Hams just finished her PhD in the College of Science through the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department studying the Otoferlin protein which is required for hearing which have been linked to hereditary deafness, affecting 360 million people globally. We also discussed what it means to be an underrepresented student in the STEM fields and how she was able to overcome those hurdles.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
    facebook: www.facebook.com/InspirationDissemination/
    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    40 min
  • Jenny Thomas Ocean Basins Are Like Trumpets; No, Really
    Ocean waters are usually stratified by density, with warmer fresher waters on top of colder, saltier ones, waves can occur between water layers of different densities at depths up to hundreds of meters. These are called internal waves. They often have frequencies that are synched with the tides and can be pretty big; up to 200 meters in amplitude! We still don’t understand a lot about how these waves work. Jenny Thomas is a PhD student working with Jim Lerczak in Physical Oceanography. Jenny studies the behavior of internal waves whose frequencies correspond with the tides, (called internal tides) in ocean basins.
    Please find us on social media!
    Twitter: twitter.com/kbvrID
    facebook: www.facebook.com/InspirationDissemination/
    Blog: blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/
    Radio Station: www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm
    Host University: oregonstate.edu
    This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.
    35 min

About Inspiration Dissemination

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Inspiration Dissemination is an award-winning radio program that occurs Sunday nights at 7PM Pacific on KBVR Corvallis, 88.7FM. Each week on the program, we host a different graduate student worker from Oregon State University to talk about their lives and passion for research here at the university. By presenting these stories, we can present the diverse, human element of graduate research that is often hidden from the public view.