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Science is a Mashup: Michael Palace at TEDxPiscataquaRiver

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Science is a Mashup: Why Idea Sharing Makes Science So Productive

Michael Palace is an environmental scientist focusing on tropical ecology, landscape ecology, and geospatial science. His research ranges from field studies of forest structure to the use of satellite imagery in an effort to predict disease, understand forest dynamics, and find and interpret past human settlement patterns. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the Earth System Research Center at the Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire. He is a faculty fellow at the Sustainability Institute and coordinator for the environmental science interdisciplinary undergraduate major, both at UNH. Production of electronic music and audio field recordings is another facet of Palace's creative efforts and has recently been integrated into a collaborative research project that uses underwater microphones to understand methane release from wetlands. 

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