#14 - Janine Bolliger: Lights, Camera, GPS and Action around biodiversity enhancement in human-dominated landscapes

The Grand Challengers Podcast

Janine Bolliger, senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and lecturer at the University of Zurich discusses the deeper subtleties behind the term 'biodiversity' and her recent work on how light pollution affects non-humans, namely bats and insects. We also delve deeper into what needs to be done to make cities more ecologically sustainable in light of global biodiversity loss.
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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Guest Welcome: Doodling around (00:01:11)

3. How we met - what is an 'Unconference' (00:03:27)

4. The ingredients of biodiversity (00:04:39)

5. Janine's early journey from Basel to Bern, Switzerland (00:10:10)

6. A jump to USA, historical patterns in landscape vegetation (00:12:11)

7. Forest fires as a natural progression of ecosystems (00:15:52)

8. Returning to Switzerland (00:17:21)

9. The role of evolving cities on biodiversity (00:19:40)

10. Janine's three pillars of research impact (00:21:54)

11. Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) (00:22:26)

12. Bats, insects and ALAN (00:30:10)

13. Where to for lighting research? (00:34:28)

14. Biodiversity and blue-green infrastructure (00:37:33)

15. Observational data on species (00:40:32)

16. Modelling structural and functional connectivity (00:42:20)

17. Where is biodiversity heading in future? (00:48:22)

18. Q&A Session (00:52:42)

19. What inspires you? (00:53:10)

20. Key event, person, book (00:55:24)

21. Biggest challenge in career to date (00:56:49)

22. Time management (00:57:42)

23. If you had a magic wand? (01:01:13)

24. Advice for early career? (01:02:16)

25. Where can people reach you? (01:03:48)

26. Final message (01:04:22)

27. Outro (01:04:51)