Internet of Nature Podcast

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, to discuss why ecosystem restoration and conservation are crucial for protecting Earth’s biodiversity and achieving climate mitigation goals, how restoration has the potential to draw down about 30 percent of accumulated global carbon emissions, why the biggest impacts are felt at the local scale, and why with the right data, along with full...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk, co-founder of the Nature Based Solutions Institute, to discuss how he became one of the founders of the global urban forest movement, why he proposed the 3-30-300 rule to deliver clear criteria for the minimum provision of urban trees, and what he's learned after decades of working with international organizations such as the United Nations and...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Wells, Public Landscape Manager for the City of Santa Monica in Southern California, to discuss urban deforestation on public and private lands, why we're losing trees and the space to plant and grow new ones in cities, the differences between tree care in the USA and the UK, and Matt's frustration with the inherent lack of sustainability in the tree care indu...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Joe Glesta, CEO & Co-Founder of Senscity, to discuss building an urban climate intelligence platform to understand past, current, and future climate change risks, impacts, and performance, why Senscity is not (just) an IoT company, why there's room for every business in the fight to adapt to climate change, and why location-based climate intelligence and IoT-based...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Indra den Bakker, CEO & Co-Founder of Overstory, to discuss how his company applies machine learning to satellite imagery to reduce the risk of wildfires and power outages, how his work improves decision-making about the Earth's forests, why utility lines still cause so many wildfires and how AI-driven vegetation management can help, how he applies his love for AI...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alison Young, co-director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences, to discuss why she co-founded the City Nature Challenge, how iNaturalist can help people find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe, and why technology can be an aid, rather than a distraction, to get people outdoors and prov...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Andrew Hirons, senior lecturer in Arboriculture at Myerscough College (UK), to discuss his career journey from tree climbing arborist to arboriculture lecturer, his passion for tree biology (and why we need it to save urban trees), and his work on using IoT sensor technologies, from soil moisture to sap flow, to better manage the urban forest. Follow Nadina and th...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, bestselling author of Darwin Comes to Town, and co-founder and co-director of Taxon Expeditions, which trains citizen scientists to document biodiversity in some of the world’s most biodiverse places.   We discuss how urban life is accelerating and changing the evo...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Payam Tabrizian, software design lead at IDEO, to discuss how virtual reality can help us understand how people feel safe (or unsafe) in various green space settings, the common misconceptions people have about green space, how immersive technology allows researchers to design a true experiment with controlled variables, and why, sometimes, leaving things as they...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ben Seamark and Tom Davey, founders of Forestree, a tree management software system built to help cities plan, manage and grow urban trees, to discuss their approach on fusing urban forestry with data science, why a lack of data has led officials (and citizens) to structurally undervalue urban forests, and how data can help make better planning decisions. Follow Nadin...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Puck van Dijk, a theatre director with a green heart, to discuss how she created the "Giants of North" (Reuzen van Noord) immersive geolocated audio tree tour, the gentrification and development issues facing Amsterdam North (and so many other cities), the real-life stories that inspired the tour's six "talking" trees, and the impact just six trees can have on a chang...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim Rademacher, a postdoctoral scholar of technology and trees, to discuss how he created the Witness Tree social media project at Harvard Forest, how a tweeting tree can help reconnect humans to nature, why forests carry more information than we currently make use of, and his hope for the future of climate communication. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podca...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Eric Ralls, Founder & CEO of PlantSnap and Earth.com, to discuss how a chance encounter with a mystery plant in his friend's backyard led to the idea behind PlantSnap, what technologies have made PlantSnap's 650,000 plants and 475 million+ image database possible, how a revolutionary partnership with the world's largest botanic gardens organization will complete t...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Fábio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab, to discuss how we can take advantage of "opportunistic data", why urban ecology is often disregarded, how Google Street View imagery and computer vision led to the development of Treepedia, why urban biodiversity matters, how Diversitree came to be, and his biggest inspirations for a brighter ur...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Marcel Steegh, Co-Founder & CTO at SoilMania, to discuss how his (tomato) farm roots, his ever-changing relationship with nature, his career in telecommunications, and how he found his new passion applying emerging IoT, sensor, and big data technologies to better monitor soil, the foundation of healthy crops, healthy animals, healthy people, and a healthy planet....

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Yvonne Lynch, currently, Urban Greening & Climate Resilience Strategist at Green Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and former head of the City of Melbourne (Australia) Urban Forest and Ecology team, to discuss how her (career) journey led her to green the desert in Riyadh, the story behind the viral "Email-a-tree" campaign she set up with her colleagues at the City of Melbour...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Stine Kondrup, Founder & CEO at Intugreen, to discuss her wildly successful Danish app "World Safari", which takes young and old on Pokémon GO-like urban nature safaris, her transition from academia to entrepreneurship, her love of nature, the most common misconceptions she faces when applying emerging technologies to nature education and conservation, and much mo...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ian Hanou, Founder & CEO at PlanIT Geo, to discuss the history of remote sensing in urban forestry, how he got his start in the field, the gap he saw that led to the founding of PlanIT Geo and its popular tree mapping software suite (called Treeplotter), what urban foresters need to know about remote sensing, and how recent advancements in AI are driving the field...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ash Welch, Senior Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity Specialist at AECOM, to explore his pioneering use of virtual reality and other immersive technologies for nature conservation and biophilic design, how virtual reality can act as an empathy machine, the most surprising reactions people have to VR, and why ecologists have been slow to adopt this promising new tec...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Joris Olde Rikkert, Founder & CEO of Treemendo, to discuss his studies in climate physics, his three (!) successful social enterprises, his want to create (even) more impact, the opportunity he saw to reconnect nature-deprived urban dwellers with reforestation programs, and much more. Treemendo is an online platform enabling organizations and individuals to t...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Mike Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Listening Officer at Sound Matters, to philosophize about how each landscape has a soundscape, the importance of listening to (and in) our noisy worlds, how sound can change our perspective, his exciting new projects in 2021, and much more. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on all social platforms: Instagram: ...

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dirk van Riel, CEO of TreeTracker, to talk about the importance of seeing urban trees as an asset (not a liability), his years as a tree surveyor, how those years motivated him to apply mobile mapping and artificial intelligence to automatically detect trees, and how applying emerging technologies can "smarten up" urban planning, tree maintenance, environmental report...