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Season 3 Episodes
Episode #17 -
Down to Earth in the Aerospace Lab
Meet Angela Seibert, a down to Earth BSU Masters student, working in the Boise Center Aerospace Lab (BCAL). She's a quiet scientist but with a big heart! Angela does it all, from rollerblading to snowsports, to painting to fighting the good fight in environmental justice. She does all of this while using LiDAR to make 3D models of peatlands and measure vegetation structure. The Earth is warming up, but Angela is keeping it cool - join us as we hear all about her striking field story where her and her field partner had to save some equipment from a lightning storm rolling in, and her awesome work on the BSU Community Garden.
-recorded October 2022
To learn more about the BCAL Lab, please visit:
https://www.boisestate.edu/bcal/
If you'd like more information on how to get involved with the BCAL lab, or those who work with Dr. Nancy Glenn, please reach out to us or to them directly!
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Episode #20 -
OutREACHING for the Stars...
Join us as we interview STEM enthusiast, Earth Science junkie, and one of the coolest people doing amazing outreach in the community, Mattie Honea. Mattie currently works in Boise State's COBE Career Services, but her background with the Discovery Center and Girl Scouts has provided EPIC STEM opportunities to hundreds of youth in the Boise area. Mattie shares with us some of her favorite stories about teaching kids about coprolite (fossilized feces) and the opportunity to interact with Sue the T-Rex. Her tenacious and passionate personality to bring youth, especially girls, into STEM careers is infectious...and the outreach bug is definitely one you want to catch. Tune in to learn why!
Episode #18 -
Blowing Off Steam at a Supervolcano
Join us as we interview one of the most laid back graduate students you'll ever meet, Maggie Holahan. She may be studying a "stressed" volcano that has to blow off a lot of steam, but Maggie uses her knowledge of the outdoors and her research with infrasound to understand eruption patterns of Steamboat Geyser - currently the World's most active tallest geyser tucked away in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Learn why Maggie's research is analogous to a heart-rate monitor and what research looks like when you work with National Parks. We probably don't have to tell you this, but things are about to get steamy....
- recorded October 2022
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If you'd like to learn more about applying for Federal and State jobs, reach out to Maggie - who has a LOT of experience working with these agencies, or visit the USGS, NFS, or NPS websites, or www.USAjobs.gov.
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Episode #21 -
Petrologic Forensics: Why Good Volcanoes Go Bad
If you didn't already know, there's another side to studying volcanoes. While most people think of the "big picture" aspects of volcanoes (like the lahars that Ashley studies) they don't often think of the small-scale aspects - which are JUST as important. Join us as we interview BSU Geoscience PhD student, Jade Bowers, who uses petrology like a detective uses clues to understand a rare phenomenon - mafic magma that erupts explosively! Learn why studying the texture, mineralogy and chemistry of the magma chamber can tell us A LOT about how and why a volcano erupts (or erupted in the past) in a particular manner. You won't want to miss this explosive episode.
Episode #19 -
May the WorkForce be With You
This week, we interview PhD Geoscience Education Research Candidate, Greg Shafer. If you're wondering what the workforce and job perspective for geoscience career paths looks like, then you'll want to listen to this episode. His work is pioneering the way for research and influencing how private and public sector agencies are advertising, offering and recruiting young professionals into the workforce. Discover why Greg is like a compass, guiding and calibrating students through the mine-field, which is life after undergrad. And hear his wild field story about an encounter with a cottonmouth snake. It will leave you on the edge of your seat. We also put Greg through the ringer of "Would you rather....". You don't want to miss his educated and well thought-out answers!
-recorded November 2022
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For more information on the future of undergraduate Geoscience education, please visit this website and download a copy of the vision and change report:
Episode #22 -
The Glacier Checking Account
Did you know glaciers are a lot like checking accounts? There's a budget where adding snow and ice to them is positive, and there's all the expenditures in the billions of gallons of water which is lost from glaciers every year. That's how our next guest, Aman KC, describes his research in Kalaallit Nunaat, which we commonly refer to as Greenland. Join us as Aman tells us how remote sensing is used to study the fascinating, yet rapidly declining, tide water glaciers along the periphery of this landmass. AND, as if that's not "cool" enough, Aman also teaches us some Nepalese words that you can practice as well! We don't know how Aman stays so cool in this warming world, but what we do know is you won't want to miss his Epic interview!