BioScience Talks podcast, hosted by James Verdier, produces a regular series entitled In Their Own Words, which chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields. In their episode published on March 9, they featured Osvaldo Sala, who is the Julie A. Wrigley and Regents’ and Foundation Professor and the founding director of the Global Drylands Center as well as a Distinguished Global Futures Scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU.

These short histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. The results of these conversations are published in the pages of BioScience and on their podcast, BioScience Talks.