Wild Research Bites - a podcast from SLU
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -A podcast from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science where two Ph.D. students bite into topics regarding research, education, and current forest and wildlife-related news.
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Episode 13 - Master Thesis #2
April 06, 2021 09:59 - 42 minutes - 26.3 MBWe’re finally back with a new episode of Wild Research Bites! This time it’s two new students who present their thesis topics for us. They will share their experiences about the master program and doing a 60 credit thesis at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies at SLU in Umeå. Amber is a Belgian student and currently developing a set of genetic markers to infer relatedness in spotted hyena populations. This can be used to study population structure, genetic health, mati...
Episode 12 - Conservation and Tourism
June 08, 2020 06:37 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode of Wild Research Bites Olli and Emelie talk to two passionate conservation practitioners Phoebe Mottram and Lawrence Steyn about their work as field and trail guides in South African Savanna. Phoebe and Lawrence tell us about their lives in the bush, and share some of their most exciting experiences from their work. In this episode, you can hear how Phoebe and Lawrence got into conservation in the first place, and how they ended up guiding tourists in some of the most beautifu...
Episode 11 - Master Thesis
February 14, 2020 07:03 - 36 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode of Wild Research Bites Emelie interview two students writing their master thesis project at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental studies at SLU in Umeå. Michelle Etienne is a German student that did her previous studies at Stockholm University and is currently doing a 60 credit thesis about Golden eagle movements in relation to linear infrastructure such as roads. She is studying if these structures form ecological traps for the eagles and how this is affecting ...
Field bites - e03
January 13, 2020 05:21 - 14 minutes - 14.5 MBIn this episode Olli interviews Dr. Liza Le Roux about her research in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. Liza has studied megaherbivores, trophic cascades, and nutrient distribution in the park, and she tells us about her previous PhD research and how it relates to her current post doctoral research. In the end of the episode, Liza gives us a glimpse into what it is like to work among wild animals in a nature reserve such as the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park.
Episode 10 - Scientific communication
December 03, 2019 09:35 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBIn this episode, we discuss how to communicate our science to the public and why we think it is so important! Joining me are journalist and communication officer Susanna Bergström and animal ecologist Tim Hofmeester. We start by trying to define what science communication is and how one can go about it in an effective and interesting way. Susanna shares her experience working with scientists, differences from being a journalist, and fun examples of what she is currently up to. There are both ...
Episode 9 - Scientific conference
November 15, 2019 07:49 - 15 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this month’s episode of Wild Research Bites, we get to follow Emelie all the way to Curitiba, Brazil and listen to her experiences with going to an international conference whilst competing with the birds for the attention of the microphone. She explains how a scientific conference usually works and why maybe you should consider going to one! Emelie had an oral presentation at one of the conference sessions where she talked about a project within her Ph.D. There were over four thousand par...
Field bites - e02
October 15, 2019 16:01 - 8 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode Olli interviews two master's students from SLU about their master thesis projects. Maja and Daniel came to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa to do the fieldwork components of their theses in early September and they will stay in the park for several months. Maja studies how elephant interference influences rhino foraging and grass reproduction, whereas Daniel looks at how rhinos respond to simulated poaching.
Field bites - e01
September 03, 2019 10:59 - 5 minutes - 5.31 MBIn this episode Olli introduces the new spin-off field series from the Wild Research Bites Podcast. He broadcasts from the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province of South Africa from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, where he studies the impact of white rhino on soil carbon fluxes. In this episode Olli outlines what his field season consists of as well as what the future episodes from the field will cover. In the coming episodes, he will be engaging with researchers, field technicians and conservation practitioners ...
Episode 8 - Moving to Sweden
July 26, 2019 11:20 - 33 minutes - 31.6 MBIn the 8th episode of the podcast, we talk about how it is for internationals to move to Sweden to study and work. In this episode we interview two foreign PhD students from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sabine Pfeffer and Fernanda De Miranda Vasconcelos about how it was for them to move to Sweden to study and work. They talk about their personal experiences from practical matters of moving to Sweden such as organizing housing and getting a bank account to assimilating to th...
Episode 7 - Moose research
June 20, 2019 14:12 - 33 minutes - 27.3 MBIn the 7th episode of the podcast, we dive into the subject of moose research with researchers Wiebke Neumann and head of department and professor Göran Ericsson. First, we start by discussing the national TV show that recorded the migration of moose over a river in central Sweden using remote cameras. The cameras were broadcasted 24/7 for 3 weeks getting as much as 4.6 millions streamed hours. Göran was taking part as an expert and tells us about his experience. Then we discuss various topic...
Episode 6 - Rewilding
May 22, 2019 09:04 - 25 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this episode we discuss how rewilding can be used as a strategy to mitigate climate change. With me in the studio is Associate Professor Joris Cromsigt from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences who works with topics in ecology in both northern and southern hemispheres. What is rewilding? Can animals have an influence on the climate system? If so, how? These are the questions discussed in this episode through examples from Joris' and his colleagues recently published paper (see l...
Episode 5 - Women in science
May 03, 2019 08:55 - 45 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode, we discuss the topic of women in science, the importance of female role models and the event Soapbox Science. With me is Judith Felten, associate senior lecturer at UPSC, who talks about her experiences as a presenter last year at the international event Soapbox Science in Umeå, and her expectations for this year. Soapbox science is a platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do by following the London Hyde Park's Speaker's Corner format (i.e standing in pu...
Episode 4 - South Africa course
March 29, 2019 10:16 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBIn this episode of Wild Research Bites we interview a Ph.D. student Sabrina Dressel to discuss the ECOS (Ecology and Society research school) Ph.D. course on Global Perspectives on Adaptive Wildlife Management that took place in Kruger National Park in South Africa earlier this year. We discuss the overall feelings about the course from both an instructor’s and a student’s perspectives and go into more detail about the course activities and class dynamics. We talk about the learning environme...
Epsiode 3 - Master Studies
February 27, 2019 00:00 - 39 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this episode of Wild Research Bites we discuss master studies and thesis work with Anna Widén, current Ph.D. student and Stephanie Higgins, currently writing her master thesis. Both took part in the master program Management of Fish and Wildlife populations at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and, Environmental Studies at SLU Umeå. We discuss their overall experience with the program before diving deep into their individual master thesis projects. Annas thesis project was about bark stripp...
Episode 2 - Fire
January 29, 2019 12:34 - 53 minutes - 54.1 MBIn this episode, Emelie and Olli are discussing fire in the boreal forest of Fennoscandia while also making comparisons to savanna ecosystems of South Africa. Why does it burn in the forest? What are the negative as well as positive effects of fire? And how have humans affected fires as a natural disturbance? The situation during the summer of 2018 in Sweden and many other parts of the world regarding high temperatures, little rain, and many forest fires, was widely covered in mainstream medi...
Episode 1 - Introductions
December 14, 2018 22:25 - 35 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this first episode of Wild Research Bites you will be introduced to the vision for the podcast and a personal story of how two nature interested children became Ph.D. students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The university is divided geographically to five different campuses and topic-wise between four different faculties. The podcast is recorded in Umeå at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies within the Forest faculty. But then who are thes...