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How human noise effects on dolphins in Panama, land-use change effects a biodiversity hotspot in India, and OCELOTS modules help compare ecological disturbances in a U.S. Ecology course

Join us for a chat with researchers and professors to learn about different types of global change: human noise effects on dolphins in Panama, land-use change effects on a biodiversity hotspot in India, and comparisons about ecological disturbance in different locations in a U.S. Ecology course. Modules and Instructor Resources available at https://cei.sonoma.edu/LFTF-global-change. Find out who they are, how they got interested in their research, and the questions they are asking.

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Date Video Recorded: November 17, 2025
Language: English

About The Researchers

Laura May-Collado, Associate Professor, Biology at University of Vermont
Jithin Vijayan, Interdisciplinary Conservation Researcher at Nature Conservation Foundation
Aparna Watve, Coordinator at IUCN SSC Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group
Anne Bower, Professor, Biology at Jefferson University

Moderated by Carissa Ganong, Assistant Professor of Biology at Missouri Western State University
Hosted by Kerry Wininger, Director at Sonoma State University, Center for Environmental Inquiry

About This Ecosystem

Countries:: Asia, North America
States or Provinces:: Missouri, Pennsylvania
Climate Zones: Tropical
Biomes: Tropical Forest, Oceans
Habitat Types: Terrestrial, Marine

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