Скачать или смотреть Biodiversity – Dr. Maria Viteri (Stanford); Cosmic Maps – Tyler Cox (UC Berkeley)

Wonderfest Science Envoys are early-career researchers with special communication skills and aspirations. This two-part "Ask a Science Envoy" Zoom event, co-presented with The Berkeley Public Library, took place on March 27, 2023, and features the following two presentations:

• Stanford paleobiologist Dr. Maria Viteri on "Exhuming the Dead to Save the Living" — Earth is experiencing a crisis in biodiversity. Surprisingly, the fossil record offers key insights for understanding this crisis, and one scientist's lifelong fascination with dinosaurs — leading to a career in conservation biology — is helping to combat the biodiversity challenge of the present ... and of the future.

• UC Berkeley astrophysicist Tyler Cox on "Creating the Largest-Ever Maps of the Universe" — New datasets from the James Webb Space Telescope have begun to reveal some of the oldest known galaxies in the universe. But what lies beyond these extremely remote objects, and what more can we learn by going deeper? Next-generation experiments are working to map the most distant regions of the universe to help explain the origins of the first galaxies.

This video was edited by Neeti Sonth, Wonderfest Science Editor. The Zoom host is Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest's founding director. Please visit the online home of nonprofit Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Beacon of Science, at Wonderfest.org .