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Hey Bugs Members!
Hey Bugs Members!
Did you know two of our very own BUGS members Michela and Shivangi are hosting a brand new radio show on 91.3 FM CJTR AccessNow Community Radio?
The Living Science Radio Show is a show about life in every sense of the word: the science of it, the people who study it, and the endless ways the living world connects us all. From the smallest cells to the biggest questions about our planet, we talk with scientists, artists, and community members about what's happening in biology, here in Saskatchewan, and around the globe.
New episodes air every other Sunday at 11:00 am, or you can click the link to the left to access the episodes after they've aired!
See below for episode listings!
Next Episode: Out of the Shadows
Next Episode: Out of the Shadows
Airing October 5th
Guest Bio:
Dr. Mark Brigham is a professor of biology at the University of Regina, who is fascinated by the behaviour and ecology of temperate insect-eating bats and nocturnal insectivorous birds called goatsuckers. He and his students investigate how these organisms cope with environmental constraints like cold, drought, and loss of habitat. This means asking questions about prey selection, prey detection abilities, the influence of moonlight, habitat selection, and the nature of torpor use.
Mark holds degrees from Queen's, Carleton, and York. He is a co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Zoology, and he has authored over 200 publications. He's received awards for bat research, mammalogy education, and graduate mentorship. The achievement he is perhaps proudest of is that 21 different individuals who passed through his lab have gone on to attain PhDs or have held faculty or research scientist positions.
Mark is also an avid “player” of games, including hockey, badminton, golf, and curling. He enjoys travelling with his wife, who is an avid photographer. And at the end of a day, he loves conversation, especially over a glass or maybe two of a full-bodied Barossa Shiraz, a Stellenbosch Pinotage, an Okanagan Ehrenfelser, or an Uco Valley Malbec.
Episode 2: When the True North Calls
Episode 2: When the True North Calls
Airing Sept 21st
Guest Bios:
Victoria Walter is an undergraduate student at the University of Regina studying Anthropology and Political Science. She feels fortunate to have been able to take part in the Sensory Acts research project this summer. Her study focused on the impacts of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement on the lives of people directly impacted by it.
Kate Wiens is a final-year anthropology student with a background in philosophy at the University of Regina. Her study this summer focused on the impact of arctic daylight patterns on the life rhythms of humans and animals and its effects on interspecies interactions. She considers herself very fortunate to have been on this amazing adventure.
Parker Schmaltz is an Indigenous Education student at First Nations University of Canada. Currently in the third year of his degree, Schmaltz chose to learn about the subsistence hunting practices in the circumpolar north this summer. His previous experiences with hunting land animals strongly motivated this project. Schmaltz plans to become an Indigenous educator in the future.
Bobo Doley is a doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Alex Oehler within the Department of Anthropology at the University of Regina. Doley is a multispecies ethnographer with experience in field research on interspecies relationships and communication in hybrid communities. He is currently in Aklavik where he will spend a year apprenticing with the Indigenous land stewardship group, Aullaviat/Anguniarvik.
Episode 1: Underdogs
Episode 1: Underdogs
Airing Sept 7th
Guest Bios:
Greg Jongsma is Curator of Zoology at the New Brunswick Museum. His research focuses on amphibians and reptiles, combining genomics, systematics, and species distribution modeling to study biodiversity and the impacts of climate change. With fieldwork across North America and Central Africa, he works to grow collections, build capacity, and connect museum science with conservation action and public engagement. His favorite frog today is the Northern Mink Frog. But ask him tomorrow and he will give you a different answer.
Kendra Driscoll works at the New Brunswick Museum as a Curatorial Assistant for Botany and Mycology. She's participated in the museum's BiotaNB biodiversity inventory project from the very beginning, collecting >1000 specimens belonging to hundreds of species of lichen and allied fungi, as well as a smattering of mushrooms, slime moulds, bryophytes, and plants. These days, Kendra's favourite underdogs to study are the lichenicolous fungi, a group of microfungi that grow only on lichens. Lichenicolous fungi have received so little attention in the past that surveys regularly produce new provincial records or even species new to science.
Alfredo Justo is the Curator of Botany and Mycology at the New Brunswick Museum (Saint John, NB, Canada). He oversees the curation and growth of the NBM Herbarium, which comprises over 100,000 specimens of fungi, plants, lichens, bryophytes and algae from New Brunswick and neighboring regions. His research focuses on the fungal diversity of New Brunswick & Atlantic Canada, while maintaining ongoing global taxonomic research on selected genera of mushrooms. Alfredo completed his PhD in systematic mycology at the University of Vigo (Spain) in 2006. Following several years of projects in Spain related to mycological conservation and diversity, he spent six years (2009-2014) in a postdoctoral research position with Dr. David Hibbett at Clark University (Massachusetts, USA), focusing on molecular systematics of mushroom-forming fungi. Research and teaching positions followed (2015-2019), in Mexico, Spain, and eventually back to the USA where Alfredo was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Worcester State University and a Visiting Scholar at Clark University. Research and publications: https://alfredojusto.weebly.com/
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