Storybook Earth Podcast
Storybook Earth unites storytelling and science to tell the tales of Earth through its geology. Join me as I explore everything from the origin of Earth’s crust to our recent ice ages, pondering geologic time from the Hadean to the Holocene, all done in a personal narrative style. You can find Storybook Earth on the Geology Podcast network via the TravelingGeologist website, on Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music.
Plucky Ladies Guests
Emilia Caylor is a PhD candidate in the department of geosciences at UArizona. Emilia holds a B.S. and M.S. in geosciences. She talks with me about growing up in Texas in a family of seven children, discovering her love of science, and figuring out she wanted to pursue her PhD after working for a year in the oil industry. Listen to Emilia’s episode
Dr. Faten Ghosn is an associate professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at UArizona. Her research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of adversaries and how they handle disagreements. She is the recipient of a 2020 Five Star Faculty award, chosen by undergraduates for her excellence in teaching, research, and mentoring, and she holds the Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professorship. Listen to Faten’s episode
Dr. Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the school of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at UArizona. Her specialty is Arab culture and intellectual history, with a focus on Palestinians. Her book entitled Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World won the 2018 Palestine Book Award, and she is currently working on her second book. Listen to Maha’s episode
Dr. Netzin Steklis is an associate professor of practice in the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences at UArizona. She has studied a variety of nonhuman primates in captive and wild settings, in particular the ecology, social behavior and conservation of wild mountain gorillas in Rwanda. For 10 years she also served as the Director of Scientific Information Resources for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Listen to Netzin’s episode
Dr. Guada Lozano is an associate research professor of mathematics and the director of CUES (Center for University Education Scholarship) at University of Arizona. Guada is also the Co-Founder of the STEM in HSI (Hispanic Serving Institutions) working group at UArizona, and studies issues of equity for LatinX students in STEM, especially those born in the U.S. Listen to Guada’s episode