Loss Lab
Global Change Ecology & Management
Scott R. Loss
Associate Professor
Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management
Oklahoma State University
Outreach
Public outreach and extension are important aspects of our work because these activities help increase public understanding of science and ensure research findings reach potential end-users. We are always happy to consider requests to give public presentations and programs to non-academic groups; examples of our outreach and extension activities are pictured below.
Students from Stillwater's Highland Park Elementary School show the European earthworms and Asian jumping earthworms they sampled from their school's grounds; led by Loss Lab postdoc Shishir Paudel, we taught a 4-week program on invasive earthworms and the scientific method to the school's science club.
We have mentored two different FIRST LEGO League middle school teams with projects on bird-window collisions (one from Norman, Oklahoma and one from Minnetonka, Minnesota). Left: Loss Lab grad students Sirena Lao and Corey Riding - along with Scott Loss and frequent Loss Lab collaborator Dr. Tim O'Connell - with the Oklahoma team during their visit to OSU to present their project and learn how to monitor bird collisions and measure building lighting (right).
Kolla S. Gopisundar
As part of our outreach activities, we also regularly conduct media interviews (see Media Coverage) and seek to disseminate our research through non-academic outlets. Here, Loss Lab graduate student Megan Roselli (left) conducts an interview on our tick-borne disease urban ecology study with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and grad student Yevgeniya Malyutina (right) does an interview about invasive earthworm effects on prairies for the Oklahoma Gardening TV show.