Today's episode features Clara Bird! She's currently a PhD student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, which is the perfect location because she is studying gray whale behavior using drones! And before that she went to Duke University in North Carolina and worked in the Duke Drone Lab and through that is how she ended up working with penguins, drones, and Antarctica! So we start off by talking about her background and getting into the remote sensing field, the Duke Drone Lab, and then dive into her work in Antarctica with whales and penguins. She recently had a paper published from this work, which we talk about in the episode so the link below. Enjoy! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM. 

You can find Clara Bird on Twitter @clarabirdferrer. 

Clara's recent paper about Adelie penguins and drones, titled "A Semi-Automated Method for Estimating Adélie Penguin Colony Abundance from a Fusion of Multispectral and Thermal Imagery Collected with Unoccupied Aircraft Systems": https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/22/3692. 

Recorded on 18 October 2020.

Today's storyteller is Dr Adriana Romero-Olivares. She is a microbial ecologist, a professor at New Mexico State University, and she studies microbes in soil! She studies how microbes in soil respond to climate change and how that impacts ecosystems. We talk about her career, her research projects, how volatile organic compounds (aka VOCs) impact microbes around them, and so much more. I need to apologize in advance because the audio on the episode is subpar and inadequate and does not do Adriana justice at all. I did my best to clean it up, but it's not perfect. So again I apologize and thank you for listening! Enjoy! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.  

You can find Adriana Romero-Olivares on Twitter @fungi_lover https://twitter.com/fungi_lover and at her website https://www.fungiloverlab.com/.  

Recorded on 6 September 2020. 

Today's episode features Jocelyn Argueta! She's a science communicator, bench scientist, and performer. And she's here today to tell all about her time going to the South Pole Station with PolarTREC at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory! Jocelyn tells us all about her work in science communication as Jargie the Science Girl, her Tiny Ice Series about her time in Antarctica, and her plans for the future. We also talk about how she got into science and also into performing arts, and the link between the two. Enjoy!  

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.  

You can find Jocelyn Argueta on Twitter @TheScienceJ  and on Instagram @TheScienceJ and here: https://linktr.ee/thesciencej.  

Jargie the Science Girl: https://phantomprojects.com/jargie/.  

Check out the Tiny Ice series here in English and in Spanish.  

You can find PolarTrec here: https://www.polartrec.com/.  

IceCube Neutrino Observatory: https://icecube.wisc.edu/. 

Recorded on 18 October 2020.

Today's storyteller is Dr Catrin Rutland! She's a professor at the University of Nottingham in England and a cardiovascular scientist. That means she studies the heart in a variety of species. Catrin does a lot of amazing things including loads of science communication and engaging with students, writing scientific papers for kids, and writing both science fiction and nonfiction books and of course scientific papers! I had a lovely time talking to Catrin so enjoy! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Catrin Rutland on Twitter @CatrinRutland or her website https://catrinrutland.weebly.com/. 

Frontiers for Young Minds journal: https://kids.frontiersin.org/. 

Recorded on 20 September 2020.

Naina Runnoo is a mechanical engineer from Mauritius and today we talk about imposter syndrome! Imposter syndrome is when a person doubts their abilities and achievements, and thinks they'll be caught as a fraud. It's something I think we all deal with at one point or another but it's also something that heavily impacts women in STEMM. Enjoy! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Naina Runnoo on Twitter @NainaRunnoo. 

Recorded on 13 September 2020.

Today's episode features Ryan Venturelli! She's just finishing up her PhD now at the University of South Florida and she's an isotope geochemist! She studies Antarctic subglacial lakes, which are lakes located between the ice and land layers. Her work focuses on understanding past movements of these glaciers and the cycling of the subglacial lakes. In this episode we talk lakes, isotopes, field work, and more so ENJOY! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Ryan Venturelli on Twitter @raventurelli  or her website https://rad-subglacial.github.io/. 

Recorded on 16 October 2020.

Today's episode features Dr Cassandra Brooks! She's a professor at CU Boulder, and has a background full of Antarctica, marine science, policy, and marine protection. She's studied deep sea toothfishes in the Southern Ocean, was an integral part of the Last Ocean campaign, is science faculty for the Homeward Bound that I'm a member of, and also is a part of the CCAMLR program for Antarctica protections and we talk about all of this so enjoy! And Happy Antarctica Day 🇦🇶, which is today the 1st of December.

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Cassandra Brooks on Twitter @cassandrafish or at her website http://www.cassandrabrooks.com/. 

CCAMLR: https://www.ccamlr.org/en/organisation/home-page. 

The Last Ocean campaign is finished but you can still watch the film, more info here: http://www.thelastoceanfilm.com/. 

You can find Homeward Bound at their website https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/, on Twitter @homewardbound16, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homewardboundprojects.

Recorded on 10 November 2020.

Today's episode features Dr Kerry Nickols! Kerry is a professor at Cal State University Northridge, working with marine ecosystems, kelp forests, and Marine Protected Areas. Today Kerry tells me about her first trip to Antarctica on an NSF project, Homeward Bound, about scuba diving and her experiences with the Our World Underwater program, about her love of the Pacific Ocean, and how she ended up as a scientist. Enjoy!  

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Kerry Nickols on Twitter @kj_nickols and her website https://ecoocelab.weebly.com/. 

Our World Underwater Scholarship: https://www.owuscholarship.org/about-us. 

You can find Homeward Bound at their website https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/, on Twitter @homewardbound16, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homewardboundprojects.

Recorded on 15 October 2020.

Dr Thomas Ronge is a marine geologist and a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany. His research focuses on understanding historical patterns of ocean currents and how they've changed, and how climate impacts oceans and glaciers. Today we cover a lot of ground, talking about things like - historical CO2 levels, the Antarctic circumpolar current, deep sea sediments, the R/V Polarstern - the institute's ice breaker ship they often use for polar research. Enjoy! 

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM.

You can find Thomas Ronge on Twitter @RemoteLongitude or on his website www.thomasronge.wixsite.com/main. 

Book List from this episode: The Swarm by Frank Schatzing.

Alfred Wegener Institute: https://www.awi.de/en/

Recorded on 13 October 2020.