Sciographies Podcast

In this episode, we interview Dr. Chris Moore. He’s a developmental psychologist with the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Dalhousie University. His longstanding research interest examines social understanding and behaviour in early childhood.

Outside of his research, he spent the last 12 years as Dalhousie’s Dean of Science. Now that his period as Dean has come to an end, he’s exploring a new phase of his career with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of King’s College. With that, he plans to write a book for the general public that explores the emotion of guilt — what it is, what it’s for, and how it manifests in our lives.

This episode covers Dr. Moore’s path to psychology, the creativity needed to research little kids’ behaviours in the lab, and his new direction as a science communication author.

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Sciographies is brought to you by Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Science and campus-community radio station CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Season 4 of Sciographies begins September 16, 2021.

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In October 2020, Sciographies host David Barclay teamed up with the Open Dialogue Live series to interview Dalhousie alum Kathryn Sullivan (PhD’78, LLD’85) on Facebook Live. Dr. Sullivan is a former NASA astronaut and was the first American woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984. She made history again earlier this year when she became the first woman to travel down to Challenger Deep, the deepest known point of the ocean.

If you missed the livestreamed event back in October, tune in now. Dr. Barclay and Dr. Sullivan discuss her early life and career, as well as her incredible journeys to space and the depths of the ocean. Dr. Sullivan also takes questions from the audience.

Sciographies is brought to you by Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Science and campus-community radio station CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Open Dialogue Live is brought to you by Dalhousie’s Office of Advancement.

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In the last Sciographies episode of the year, Dalhousie University pharmacology student
Gracious Kashéké tackles hosting duties to interview David Barclay for a change. When Dr.
Barclay isn’t moonlighting as the host of Sciographies, he’s an associate professor in Dal’s
Department of Oceanography and a Canada Research Chair in Ocean Technology Systems (Tier
II).

Having grown up in Victoria, B.C., Dr. Barclay spent many childhood vacations sailing along the
West Coast. But it was actually a gig as a student researcher and a lifelong fascination with
sound, music, and recording that led Dr. Barclay down a career path in physical oceanography
and underwater acoustics.

Now Dr. Barclay runs the Dalhousie Noise Lab where his team designs technology that can
withstand harsh conditions to record sound waves from the ocean’s surface all the way down
to its deepest trenches. His technology is an essential tool in the fields of naval defence, naval
communication, and marine biology.

Guest host Kashéké sits down with Dr. Barclay to talk about his upbringing, creative side, and
research (including that popular scientific paper on noise in the ocean at the beginning of the
pandemic).

Sciographies is brought to you by Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Science and campus-
community radio station CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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For more information about undergraduate student research opportunities in Dalhousie’s
Faculty of Science, visit dal.ca/science/urops.

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