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Science innovation alone will not save the planet

Eat What bugs you  TEDxUIdaho

​Looking for an Ant on a Mountain with No Name

8 March 2017 KQED Forum with Michael Krasny  Listen here

25 February 2017 Ants of Cananda: How to discover a new species of ant

24 Aug 2016 Science often starts with questions: interview with Ravindra Palavalli Nettimi​

4 March 2016 My story and TIAA. see more photos here

4 September 2015 Ant Course: Why Ants Matter


 Jul 23, 2015 Discovery News: What A Bug Scientist Says About ‘Ant-Man’ 

July 18, 2015 Breakthrough Entertainment’s Bug Show

Jan. 23, 2015 Inquiring Minds Podcast

Nov 16, 2014 The Story Collider

Alone in the African rainforest and on the brink of death, entomologist Brian Fisher finds help from an unexpected source.

Videos

Madagascar : the lost Makay
This clip is from the adventure with Evrard Wendenbaum in Makay Madagascar as part of a 3D documentary directed by Pierre Stine.
ForaTV: Ants: The Invisible Majority

Example programs

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16 April 2014
Art Class with Genine Lentine
from San Francisco Art Institute

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Ant Lab working the crowd at Nightlife
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The annual CAS Halloween Part
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Capacitor Labs at the Academy.  The Perfect Flower at NightLife

CAS Ant Exhibit

Love Picnic and Advice from Underground 

Two collaborative projects with artist and poet Genine Lentine.  The first provided an opportunity to seek advice on personal challenges from an ant’s point of view, based on their 100 million years of problem-solving.   In the second, participants explored Love Picnic, an interactive display of formicine social pairing (in other words, how ants find a date).



In the News

10 June 2012
BBC Nature interviewed us at the BMNH at the start of our World Ant Tour
World Ant Tour to image of all ant species: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18368213

http://cleantechies.com/2011/05/10/solar-powers-biodiversity-study-in-madagascar/
http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/edible-insects-finger-lickin-grub/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112551927/antweb-to-catalogue-ant-species-in-3d/
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7410-243a  doi:10.1038/nj7410-243a
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-drapeau/should-governments-crowds_b_1342508.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158131/The-Antlas-Scientists-travel-world-imaging-species-ant-amazingly-detailed-3D-online-database.html
http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/ants-in-3d-project-begins-to-image-every-known-species
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/10/245532/scientists-capture-ant-images-in-3d/
http://www.popsci.com.au/science/ambitious-insect-catalogue-snaps-3d-images-of-every-ant-species
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/gallery-ambitious-new-insect-catalog-snaps-3-d-images-every-ant-species


Freelance Stories

Online
New York Times: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/author/brian-fisher/
Nature.com:  A New Era of Science Funding - Part 3 Crowdfunding via Petridish Soapbox. Access
June 19, 2012: AntWeb Documents the World of Ants
Print
Fisher, B.L. (2007) Save an Ant, Save a Planet. Published via the Blurb publishing platform. pp. 160. Published 4 Oct 2007 Access
Fisher, B.L. (2007) The island in the sky. Austral, November. PDF
Fisher, B.L. (2006) DNA Barcoding Tomorrow Is Too Late. California Wild, Winter issue. PDF
Fisher, B.L. (2005) Attack on the Army Ants. California Wild, Winter issue. PDF
Fisher, B.L. (2003) Why Inventory?, California Wild, Winter issue. PDF
Fisher, B.L. (2003) For the love of Ants. California Wild, Winter issue. PDF
Fisher, B.L. (2002) Escape from Ant Paradise. California Wild, Winter issue. PDF