Candy canes as plant defenses [ 10:33 | 9.66 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What would make a plant want to stop growing towards the sun and instead grow downward? Michael Wise of the University of Virginia studies a species of goldenrod that grows toward the ground for part of the spring months, creating a morphology that looks a lot like a candy cane. He explains that this “candy-cane” [...]

Dead Zones as Safe Havens [ 11:59 | 10.97 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Andrew Altieri, a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, joins us in this month’s episode of Field Talk to discuss his work examining hypoxic marine systems, known as dead zones. Altieri studies a community of clams and mussels – collectively known as bivalves – in Narragansett Bay, off the coast of Providence, Rhode Island. His paper [...]