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interdisciplinary research
Explore "interdisciplinary research" with insightful episodes like "Incubator Fund webinar", "Optics Valley: The State of Arizona's Optics Industry E36", "Transformative BioScience Innovations Shaping Southern Arizona E18", "Virūpa is Virūpākṣa: Towards an Indo-Tibetan Siddha Corpus" and "The Sound of Contagion 2/3" from podcasts like ""Cambridge Language Sciences", "AZ TechCast", "AZ TechCast", "Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar" and "The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations"" and more!
Episodes (7)
Optics Valley: The State of Arizona's Optics Industry E36
Transformative BioScience Innovations Shaping Southern Arizona E18
Virūpa is Virūpākṣa: Towards an Indo-Tibetan Siddha Corpus
The Sound of Contagion 2/3
#COVID–19: Interdisciplinarity is key
Episode 7: One Fish, Two Fish, Environmental Justice
While in grad school, April Richards discovered that she wanted to study both fish and environmental justice. Her advisor wasn't really sure how to direct her.
A year and a half later, she sat in the ORCA Podcast hot seat explaining just how she's combining those interests as a Research Associate for the organization.
Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, Richards spent an entire summer investigating the habits of local subsistence fishing populations and testing fish parts for the presence of microcystin—a toxin released from toxic algae blooms. This tendril project sprouted from the overarching One Health research program at ORCA (check out Episode 2).
Now, she is continuing her work with these communities as well as the local health care system in Fort Pierce by conducting physician surveys. If you receive health care in Martin, Okechobee, Indian River, and/or St. Lucie County, Florida, you can join our citizen science efforts to collect the same qualitative data that was so insightful to ORCA's original research championed by Richards. To learn more, email OneHealth@teamorca.org