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

Cultivating the windswept prairie

ARCS Foundation News

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#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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