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This week we talk about our favorite science communicators!! From podcasts to tiktok to books, we fangirl over everyone we love to follow and talk about what makes for effective science communication! Below are the folks we talk about in the podcast - you should follow them, they’re the best. Our audio was a little glitchy (we'll figure it out one day), and there are some interjections from Raleigh (Kyle's sweet pup!)

 

Podcasts: 

Completely Arbortrary - Instagram: @completelyarbortrary

Ologies - Instagram: @ologies

Don't Panic Geocast - Website: https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/ 

Everything Hertz - Website: https://everythinghertz.com/ 

People: 

Nick Zentner - Instagram: @nickzentner website YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick

Cate Larsen - Instagram: @groovygeologist TikTok: @rocktokcate

Alexis Nikole Nelson - Instagram/TikTok/Twitter/Facebook: @blackforager

Sarafina Nance - Instagram/Twitter: @starstrickensf

Books: 

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Instagram: @braidingsweetgrassbook Books: https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/ 

Hope Jahren - Instagram: @realhopejahren  Books: https://hopejahrensurecanwrite.com/ 

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything 

Marcia Bjornerud's Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39204074-timefulness

Kyle presented at a conference this past week! The Geological Society of America (https://www.geosociety.org/) annual conference to be specific! Kyle talks about scientific conferences in general, his experience at this conference (his first in-person one since the pandemic started!), his networking, and his favorite parts about the conference! 

Nick Zentner (Central Washington University): http://www.nickzentner.com/

Join us for a trip in time back to 1974. And then back in time over 140,000 years ago! Amy visited The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota recently and tells Kyle about her experience. Sinkholes, karst, and mammoths - The Mammoth Site really has it all!

Kyle shares about his sinkhole research! Truly the worst background noises in this episode, but we’ll work on improving it in future episodes.

Kyle shared today about the Environmental Capstone Course he is TAing this semester! We had a nice discussion about it, Kyle's experience as an educator, and experiential education as a whole.

In this episode, we talk about gardening! Find out what Amy has growing in her garden, how gardens can be used as teaching tools, and about how shocking it is that either sibling can successfully grow plants based on their dismal childhood track record. Featuring - background sounds from Kyle's new pup, Raleigh!!

We're back!! Coming back from a summer hiatus of working and geology field camp, we're excited to start our season 2! We caught up and checked in about each others' summers.

Moss!! Amazing plants that are even more amazing the closer you look at them! We talk about what defines a moss, moss reproduction, and the importance of disturbance. Plus there's a musical treasure if you make it to the end. The audio is weird in this one about halfway through, but at least we made it halfway through an episode with decent audio. 

 

Gathering Moss: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/87040.Gathering_Moss 

Braiding Sweetgrass: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass

More hydrology! Kyle shares his experience with hydrology and its various topics, how surface water and groundwater interact, and his own (potential) PhD work! Plus we follow a long tangent on Henri Philibert Gaspard Darcy and the unrecognized heroes of the Eiffel Tower. Also featuring the birds of Washington State in the background (as outside is the best place to record).

Hydrology! Water! Wetlands! Watersheds! Amy talks about how hydrology factors into her work, we discuss policy in working around water, and there's a several minute tangent on beavers!