Media Coverage

Discover Life in Amerca is regularly in the news, receiving national and international coverage for innovative research and discovery. Strong media coverage in newspapers, TV, and magazines such as Audubon, National Geographic, Time, Smithsonian, Science, Tennessee Conservationist, and Newsweek.

A current fantastic story in Audubon Magazine highlights the importance of this great project.

Below are a list of articles on DLIA.

• ABC News - Butterfly Hunt Finds Some 700 Species (August 2000)

• Associated Press - Researchers Preparing to Start Massive Smokies Inventory (December 1998), Every Beetle Counts in the Smokies (June 2001),  Scientists Scour Smokies for Bats (June 2002), Smokies Biodiversity Researchers to Survey Rugged Wilderness (August 2006)

• Atlanta Journal Constitution - Smokies Species Ground Zero (July 1999)

• Asheville Citizen-Times - Buy the Right to Name a New Species in the Smokies (June 2011)

• Audubon Magazine (Vol. 112, Number 4) - The Mother Lode (July-August 2010)

• Bangor Daily News - UMPI Professor's Study Extends to National Park (August 2010)

• Chattanooga Times - Study to Try Cataloging the Vast Smokies (January 1998)

• Cherokee One Feather - Firefly Mania! (June 2011)

• Chicago Tribune - Counting Every Species In Smokies Is Planned (December 1998)

• Congressional Press - Thompson Founds Smoky Mountains Congressional Caucus To Raise Park's Profile With Congress (March 1998)

• The Florida Entomologist - The All Taxa Biological Inventory Of The Great Smoke Mountains National Park (December 2001)

• George Wright Forum (Vol. 23, Number 3) - ATBI Overview, Findings, Success Stories, Lessons Learned, and an Alliance of ATBIs, Implications of an ATBI for Reserve Stewardship, Science Education Programs with the ATBI, The Science Approach to the ATBI (2006)

• Herald Sun - Scientists Try to Record All Organisms in the Smokies (May 2001), Smokies Study Begins Piecing Together Environmental Puzzle (December 2003)

• The Knoxville News-Sentinel -
  • Nonprofit Behind Smokies Inventory Gets New Leader (February 2008), ATBI Milestone (April 2008), Stinging Descent (April 2008),  As Smokies Species Inventory Exceeds Expectations Over Decade, Officials Focus On Keeping Project Afloat (May 2008), Beauty in Small Wonders Captured (July 2008)
  • Volunteers Make Smokies What It Is (June 2009), Rare Snails, Tree New Discoveries in Smokies (November 2009), Conference to Highlight Invasive Species Problem (December 2009)
  • 'Critters' Frolic at Salamander Ball (January 2010), All Together Now With Synchronous Fireflies (May 2010), Discovering New Secies: Managers of Project Now Helping Find Life Around the World (September 2010)
  •  Newsmakers: New Chairmen and Board Members of DLIA (January 2011)  Smokies, Climate Change Studied (April 2011)

• Maryville Daily Times - Scientists Name Insect Species After Alexander (November 2007)

• News Observer - Inventory Takes Stock of Life (May 2001)

• New Zealand Press Association - Hundreds of Previously Unknown Species Unearthed in Smokies (August 2008)

• USA Today - Scientists Dig For Microbial Riches in Smokies (May 2004), You Can Get A Species Named After You (July 2011)

• Washington Post - In the Smoky Mountains, the Census Never Ended; From Salamanders to Slime Molds, an Ambitious Accounting (January 2002), Bid to Catalogue All Life Forms Spreads Among Parks in U.S. (January 2006)