Our scientists frequently join Wisconsin Public Radio’s Larry Meiller on the air to provide scientific updates on our research and answer questions about bioenergy. 

GLBRC's Science Programs Manager, Steve Slater on air with Larry Meiller. Photo by John Greenler. 

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May 30, 2012

John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Holly Gibbs (UW Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies & Geography) will discuss land use change and bioenergy. 

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January 25, 2012

John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Carl Houtman (PhD Chemical Engineer in the UW Forest Products Lab) will discuss bioenergy and forest products.

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November 30, 2011
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Brian Fox (UW Professor of Biochemistry) talk about using enzymes to develop future generation biofuels. 

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September 28, 2011 
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Natalia de Leon (UW Assistant Professor of Agronomy) talk about biofuels and corn, with an emphasis on looking towards a sustainable energy future.

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July 27, 2011
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Tom Gower (UW Professor of Forest Ecosystem Ecology), talk about Wisconsin forests, sustainability and bioenergy.

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May 25, 2011
Judith Siers-Poisson, in for Larry Meiller, and guests John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach) and David Rothamer (Assistant Professor in the UW Mechanical Engineering Department), talk about how next generation biofuels will work in future engines, and what engine technologies we can look forward to that will be cleaner and more fuel efficient. 

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March 30, 2011
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director) and Claudio Gratton (Associate Professor of Entomology), talk about the effects of bioenergy crops on diversity, especially in regards to insects as beneficial members of ecosystems, and the services that ecosystems provide to us as humans. 

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February 23, 2011
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (Education and Outreach Director) and Steve Slater (Science Programs Manager), talk about the connection between bioenergy and biotechnology. 

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January 26, 2011
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (Education and Outreach Director) and Christopher Kucharik (Professor of Agronomy), talk about climate change in Wisconsin and sustainable bioenergy as a response. 

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December 8, 2010
Larry Meiller learns about a project that brings plant-based biofuels and a sustainable stove design to places like Haiti, and other deforested areas of the world with his guests, John Greenler (Education and Outreach Director), Tyler Lark and Eyleen Chou (UW-Madison engineering students). 

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February 24, 2010
How could synthetic biology impact future-generation fuels? Larry Meiller talks with John Greenler (GLBRC) and Brian Pfleger (Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

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December 16, 2009
Larry Meiller and his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC) and Michael Casler (U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center geneticist), examine the role switchgrass could play in a transition to a biofuel-based transportation system. 

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September 16, 2009
Larry Meiller gets an update on the latest in biofuel research from guests John Greenler (GLBRC) and Troy Runge (Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative). 

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April 28, 2009
How can you judge good, sustainable biofuel? Larry Meiller talks with three people involved in biofuel research, John Greenler (GLBRC), Randy Jackson (Assistant Professor of Agronomy) and Julie Sinistore (Ph.D. candidate in Biological Systems Engineering). 

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November 26, 2008
Larry Meiller brews up some discussion on biofuels with his guests, John Greenler (GLBRC), Audrey Gasch (Assistant Professor of Genetics) and Tom Jeffries (USDA Professor of Bacteriology and Senior Scientist at UW-Madison).

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August 6, 2008
Larry Meiller talks about producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass with John Greenler (GLBRC Education and Outreach Director).

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