Johanna “Pika Jo” Varner is a pika biologist who lives in Colorado. During the academic year, she teaches biology at Colorado Mesa University, but during the summer, she spends a lot of time in the mountains looking for pikas, placing temperature sensors, and collecting scat samples to analyze for stress. Before she was a pika biologist, Dr. Varner was a biomedical engineer, a baker, and a blueberry farmer. But she likes studying pikas best because they are so cute and they live in beautiful places.
Pika Power! The World’s Cutest Mammal with Dr. Jo Varner
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Pika Power! The World’s Cutest Mammal with Dr. Jo Varner
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July 14, 2024
8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST
Grade Level: 4-8
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