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Behind the Science with ecologist Rodolfo Dirzo
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- Today I am here in the Bass biology building
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and I'm going to be interviewing Rodolfo Dirzo to see what his research is
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all about. - Welcome to my little niche. - This is a beautiful office
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you have here.
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We'd love to know what your work is about.
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We'd also love to see your lab space
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if that's all right with you. - I will be delighted to show you
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those things.
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I am an ecologist interested in what is happening to nature given this incredible
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impact that humanity is bringing today,
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and also the consequence of that for human wellbeing,
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particularly human health. - It's so clear, just being in your space here,
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how much you value art
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and color. - This is one of my main instruments. - Oh yes. -
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The famous transit tapes to measure. - Charles. - Charles Darwin.
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These are typical camera traps.
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Those cameras that have a laser beam, when it's broken,
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they will take a photo of the animal.
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Anything you want to know about birds you ask Marty. - You're the bird guy.
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Got it. - He's the bird guy.
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He is the bird guy. - What's your favorite bird? - Oh,
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that's a tough question. - That's a tough question.
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Impossible.
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Always go hard one.
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Yeah, if I had to say one, I would say the bar-tailed godwit.
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Oh wow. - So the trap that we use to catch small mammals.
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So you have those little things here. - Oh yeah. - It's a tunnel
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and you put peanut butter.
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They love it. - Peanut butter! - Peanut butter with some honey perhaps.
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And you'll have the animal there with no damage at all. - How did
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you first get into science
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and what was it
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that drew you to research? - You know,
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when I was a young lad,
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I used to live in an area of southern Mexico where there was a
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little bit of a remnants of forest
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and that fascinated me,
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but I had no clue as to what, how to study,
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how to understand the significance of that.
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But then I realized
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that all of those wonderful places
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that I enjoyed as a young boy are disappearing dramatically
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because of human impact.
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People tend to think that they're mostly about climate change.
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Actually that's very important, but it's not the only one.
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So there's land use change, meaning the destruction of the habitats.
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There's declining in biological diversity as well.
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There's pollution.
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And the problem that I think we need to understand is
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that all of those factors do not operate in isolation,
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but they are combined. - Thank you so much for having us today.
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It's been amazing to learn what your work is about here. - Pleasure,
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thank you so much.
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