Today, Dr. Rosie ’Anolani Alegado of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how weather, climate, and human intervention impact the microbiota to be found in human related seascapes around Hawai’i.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Rosie ’Anolani Alegado
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Links for this episode
- An overview of how Hawai’i was settled from Polynesia.
- An essay describing indigenous Hawai’ian culture and its collaborative relationship to the land and sea.
- A must read book “Coral Reefs in a Microbial Sea,” by the late Merry Youle, Forest Rohwer, and Derek Vosten.
- Here are several links related to the work of Dr. Isabella Abbott, including this one from Pacific Science. Again, well worth your reading.
- An overview of the field of ethnobotany, championed by Dr. Abbott.
- Dr. Alegado’s previous research was with the fascinating choanoflagellates, which can tell us about the evolution of complex life. Here is a video about these ancient relatives of us all. Here is a article from Dr. Alegado describing a bacterial role in the development of this fascinating organism.
- An overview of the “One Health” concept linking human interactions, animals, plants, the land, and the ocean.
- A focus of Dr. Alegado’s group research involving the indigenous Hawai’ian fishponds.
- An overview of community restoration of these ancient structures.
- The role of taro in ethnobotany.
- A fine description of indigenous Hawai’ian mariculture.
- The concept of dysbiosis.
- Tropical storm Wali, which impacted the Hawai’ian Islands.
- An overview of alpha diversity and beta diversity in microbiome studies.
- A fine book about Dr. Barbara McClintock, “A Feeling for the Organism.”
- Here is a wonderful video in which Dr. Alegado describes the work of her research group and her interests in the fishponds of Hawai’i.
- Dr. Alegado’s faculty website.
- Dr. Alegado’s very interesting research group website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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