Season 3

• Astronomy

Season 2

• Energy
• Food Webs
• Technology of Social Sciences
• Transportation
• Fresh Water

Season 1

• Nanotechnology
• Weather and Climate Change
• Water and The Landscape
• Remote Wireless Sensing

The Forming of Galaxies
John O'Meara, assistant professor of physics at St. Michael's College, discusses how galaxies form. By looking at the spectrograph of stars that are billions of years old we can get insights into our own galaxy's history.

What are Pulsars?
Joanna Rankin, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Vermont, discusses how pulsars have strong gravity, enormous electric potential and a large magnetic field.

Ecological Economics
Jon Erickson, of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, examines how we view the environment in conjunction with our economic system.

Placing Value on Farm Products
Heather Darby, agronomist with the University of Vermont Extension, discusses how using ecological economics to place a value not only on farm commodities, like milk or biofuel, but on every aspect of the product is crucial to understanding the commodities true value.

Food Pathogens
Ken Puzey, founder of QuantaSpec Inc, discusses the problem of food born illnesses, their affect on the U.S. population and how technology helps to detect these pathogens in our food.

Transmission of Food Pathogens
Jane Hill, assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont, studies how bacteria gets from one location to another in the food supply system.

Disease Transmission in Tanzania
Michel Masozera, Hali Doctoral Student of the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont, discusses the problem of disease transmission in Tanzania due to the proximity of humans, livestock and wildlife all sharing the same land.

Predicting Malaria Outbreaks in Africa
Arne Bomblies, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont, discusses how using computer simulations can help predict locations of mosquito populations in Africa and therefore target potential malaria outbreaks.

The Miracle of Electric Vehicles
Getting to the grocery store - a comparison of the gasoline engine and the electric motor. Featuring: Stephen Miracle, Founder of Miracle Energy Systems, LLC and Electric Vehicle Technician for Evermont Inc.

Aquatic Food Webs
A quick overview of an aquatic food web, and the challenge of modeling these systems. Featuring: Ellen Marsden, Professor, Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources, University of Vermont.

Sociology.com
How the internet is affecting and changing the Social Sciences. Featuring: Peter Dodds, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont.

Vehicle to Grid
Steve Letendre explains that the transition to electric vehicles may be sooner than we think. Featuring: Steve Letendre, Professor, Green Mountain College.

Carnivorous Plant
Nick Gotelli explains how the challenge of modeling complex food webs is simplified in a Vermont Bog, with the help of the Pitcher Plant. Featuring: Nick Gotelli, Department of Biology, University of Vermont.

Good Robot
How child psychology is being translated to the development of smart robots. Featuring: Josh Bongard, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont.

Invisible Wind Turbines
John LaRue explains how optical technology can make wind towers invisible. Featuring: John LaRue, President, Natural Horizons.

Smart Grids
The electric grid consists of many agents – human, monetary and technological. How will the introduction of intermittent renewable sources affect cost and function? Featuring: Paul Hines, School of Engineering, University of Vermont.

Nanotechnology's Role in Fighting Cancer
One of the predominant features of nano-materials is an extremely high surface area. In this episode, Chris Landry, professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont describes how nanotechnology applications are improving the efficacy of cancer drugs by delivering more medicine to patients.

Land Development and Water Quality
In this episode, Beverly Wemple, associate professor at the University of Vermont's Department of Geography explores changes that are affecting our water quality. How does changing weather affect our water? What happens when we remove trees and the soil becomes more susceptible to erosion? How can we manage and develop the forested landscape while reducing the potential of forest management to degrade our water resources?

Remote Sensing of Mechanical Stress
The science and technology of remote wireless sensing consists of many disciplines. In this episode, Steve Arms, president of MicroStrain, Inc., describes one example of remote wireless sensing. Piezoelectric materials create a voltage when they are stressed. Combining this with remote sensing technology, MicroStrain will help to save the U.S. Navy hundreds of millions of dollars in helicopter maintenance costs.

UV Radiation and Greenhouse Gases
In this episode, Vermont state climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux explains one of the major planetary components of climate change: greenhouse gas. The ozone layer protects us from UV radiation, but with increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the "greenhouse effect" is increased, warming and deflecting more solar radiation back to the earth.

Water Systems – A Complex Model
How do "water systems" work? In this episode, Mary Watzin, director of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory introduces us to complex systems. With years of accumulated data, the current charge is to quantify local water systems and predict the trajectory of our ecosystem.

Remote Sensing of Environmental Conditions
Accurately measuring environmental conditions is critical for natural resource planning, estimation of agricultural conditions, weather forecasting and a number of essential scenarios affecting our everyday life. In this episode, Christian Skalka, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Vermont, explains how scientific advances in gathering and transmitting environmental data are giving us a better understanding of the water quality in Vermont's winter snow pack.

Accurately Predicting the Weather
Mark Breen, chief meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vt., introduces us to the evolution of weather forecasting - from old weather sayings to modern complex models. He discusses such topics as human impact and anticipating

Nanotechnology and the Hydrogen Economy
At the nanoscale, the physics and chemistry of materials change. Walter Varhue, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Vermont, proposes to use materials at the nanoscale, in the presence of water and sunlight, to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This process could lead to the creation of cheap, clean energy, a promising component of the hydrogen economy.