Luister mee naar Prof Orizaola op 20 maart om 19u tot 20u via de link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaW7rEXHNy0

Professor Germán Orizaola (https://gorizaola.wordpress.com), is a Senior Researcher (Ramón y Cajal Program) at the Zoology Unit, Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems, University of Oviedo, and the IMIB-Biodiversity Research Institute, a joint centre between the University of Oviedo, the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), and the Principality of Asturias, Spain Professor Orizaola’s research interests are the effects and adaptation patterns to low-dose radiation in wildlife and evolutionary ecology of life-history strategies. He has been studying the effects of radiation on the wildlife of the Chornobyl exclusion area. The area has become a haven for wildlife and one of the largest natural laboratories on the subject of rewilding. Professor Orizaola’s work has recently come into the international spotlight with his work on how tree frogs quickly adapted to live the exclusion area (https://euronews.com/green/2022/10/15/chernobyls-tree-frogs-the-inside-story-on-how-a-cunning-species-survived-radiation…). In this presentation, professor Orizaola will talk about his work in the rewilding efforts at Chernobyl and how the local biome has changed due to the accident.’