Teaching Tree of Life

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We are all Tree Tenders!

Those outreach activities always make me wondering how could I deliver the knowledge I learned to the public and also make me realized that how important my work is! Tree of life is beautiful metaphor! It perfectly explains how everything in this enormous tree connected and related. If we can educate the public about the biodiversity and conservation, and how our future depends on it! Then so, ultimately more and more people realize it and will initiatively promote saving the Tree of Life! It’s never too big to do something about it! We all play a part for the greater good!

Here are some photos from the workshops I teaching tree of life and outreach activities I show people how the vegetables and fruits on their diner table are related.

Biodiversity and the Earth

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Saving the Biodiversity on the Earth = Saving Ourselves

It’s never too big to do something about it! We all play a part for the greater good!

Our world’s heartbeat is its biodiversity! This complex network of all life is responsible for the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. But we often don’t realize how much even our subtile actions may have huge consequences to the earth’s cultivation or damage. That’s why researchers come together from all over the world to map our biodiversity and call for conservation. We are building a robust family tree for all life on earth as the foundation for its preservation and for the greater good of our own species.
Evolutionary relationship matters! Tree of Life (phylogeny) is able to help us with the discovery of medicines, curing diseases, improving crops, identifying conservation priorities, and even predicting the global response of species to a rapidly changing climate. Our knowledge of phylogeny also can help to increase public understanding of conservation, biodiversity, emphasizing the importance and connectivity of all life. Scientists and the publics, and policy makers need to be partnership togther contributing this great course! See Soltis and Soltis (2019).

Outreach | Miao Sun | 孙苗

Teaching Tree of Life

We are all Tree Tenders!

Biodiversity and the Earth

Saving the Biodiversity on the Earth = Saving Ourselves

It’s never too big to do something about it! We all play a part for the greater good!