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BARAK LAB
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Plant Love Stories Becky is a founder and project lead for Plant Love Stories, a project to collect and share stories about the plants that impact our lives. Please check out the site and consider sharing your story :)
Welcome to Plant Love Stories. And: How I became a botanist in New Jersey
Seed Love and Science Art
#MySciComm: Becky Barak on how teaching high school and loving plants led to a research career Ecological Society of America's Communication and Engagement Section's MySciComm blog.
Taking the acid test to bits
Plant // People Blog
Finding missing branches: Phylogenetic patterns of plant community diversity in restored and remnant tallgrass prairies
The Applied Ecologist's Blog
Recipe for an aster: Prairie restoration in Chicago
Parks and Recreation magazine
Incorporating history to improve future tallgrass prairie restorations
RS Barak and EW Williams
BGjournal, Journal of Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Big green things start tiny
Plant//People Blog
Prairies need fire
My Chicago Botanic Blog
Banning species blindness in budding botanists
My Chicago Botanic Blog
ADDITIONAL MEDIA
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We can make grass greener by Megan Fellman for Northwestern Now
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Prairies are making headlines. But what exactly are they? by Patty Wetli for WTTW news
Love Letters by Amy McCullough in Wildflower Magazine
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Powering Up the Prairie by Julianne Beck for MyChicagoBotanic Blog
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Science Communication, Simple Words, and Story Telling at ESA 2016 by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie for the Plos Ecology Blog
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STEM outreach to high school girls covered in The Chicago Tribune and Glenbrook South News
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Prairie Pints on the PhDrinking Podcast with Sadie Witkowski
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