Float Your Boat

There's a buzz about today's episode! To Bee Or Not To Bee that is the question.... Backpacker bees may save us and the planet. Professor Paulo De-Souza tells us how he has created Backpacks for bees, yes you heard correctly! we can now track our honey bees in the hope we can find answers to our declining Honey Bee populations around the world....this is crucial for the survival of the human race! Professor de Souza is a Physicist with PhD in Natural Sciences from Uni-Mainz, Germany. He has 20+ years of international experience in industrial innovation and consultancy. He is recognised for his work in miniaturised sensor development in fields including space exploration, environmental sciences, animal behaviour monitoring, and industrial process control. Paulo has 200+ peer-reviewed publications, patents and books. He is co-author of a series of papers identified as the Breakthrough of the Year 2004 by the prestigious journal Science. He is an Officer of the Chief Executive Science Leader at CSIRO | Data61,