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Healthy Planet Marine Studies Initiative Stewardship

Surf’s Up!

If you love big surf, go to Depoe Bay on the Oregon coast during a winter storm.

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Healthy Planet Inquiry Stewardship

Botanist leads international fungal genome project

Fungi are master recyclers, turning waste into nutrients and providing humankind with everything from penicillin to pale ale. Although fungi are members of one of the world’s most diverse kingdoms, we know relatively little about them.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Advocate for the planet

What we’ve come to understand in recent years is the scale of change and the pace of change that we’re now kicking off. We’re not going to be able to adapt past a certain point.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Contraceptive vaccine under study for elephants and horses

The first lesson the elephants taught Ursula Bechert was that they had a sense of humor.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Chasing the canine connection

When Cristina Eisenberg and her family moved to Montana in 1994, they received a warm welcome from their neighbors. On the first night in their new log cabin, they were greeted by the sonorous howls of nearby wolves.

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Healthy People Inquiry Stewardship

Love of Language

As a college student, Bryan Tilt spent three years in South Korea and returned with a love for a new culture and its language. “I don’t know that I would have gotten into anthropology without that experience. It just opened up doors for me that I didn’t even know existed, let alone knew how to walk through,” he says.