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Australian environmentalist Shane French discusses the 2020 bushfires, Australia’s unique wildlife, and offers advice for career longevity in environmentalism.

Inclusivity in STEM begins with a supportive community. Cristal Dominguez Vasquez takes a moment to discuss the opportunities and hardships she experienced as a Latinx student, and the mentors that helped her along the way.

Connecting people to place can be a powerful teaching tool and is something, lecturer at Indiana University and long-time park service employee, Dr. Brian Forist embraces. In this episode, we detail many examples of how this connection to nature is powerful for healing, learning, and uniting people together.

America’s national parks are called our “best idea”, but are they? How can we make them better? What’s co-management of the parks? What are ecosystem sciences? In this episode, long-time National Park Service employee and lecturer at Indiana University, Dr. Brian Forist gives an honest look at the growth happening across America’s “Best Idea”.

How can we make science and nature more accessible? In this episode, we look at how citizen science can be a tool for people to reach a higher understanding of the ecosystem surrounding them. Scientists Dr. Bowser and Sarah Whipple continue the discussion on how we each will connect to nature differently, we also examine the interesting parallels in finding nature in a park in New York City with finding frogs in Maine.

In our pilot episode, podcast co-creators Cody Sanford and Kaydee Barker speak with Dr. Gillian Bowser and Sarah Whipple about the YEAH Network and the importance of working across cultures in environmental science.