#127 - Georget Oraha: Mussels and Biology Education

Today's storyteller is Georget Oraha! Georget is a graduate student at Cal State Fullerton, studying tidal influences on mussels in California. We start out talking about her research and how all that went, especially with how the pandemic has impacted her fieldwork and also her study areas. So we talk about all that, but we also have a really good conversation about finding community in a research lab/field team, which can be rare to find but is so amazing when it all clicks together. Georget is also interested in teaching, and has taught in some undergraduate courses and we talk about teaching, growth, philosophy about communication, and biology education. I know I say this a lot but I learned a lot from Georget and it was a lot of fun to record this so enjoy!

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and on the shiny new Twitter account @storytellers42.

You can find Georget on Twitter @georgetoraha.

Rachel's Outdoor Conservation Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/741391-outdoor-conservation-book-club

Book List: A Short Guide To Writing About Biology by Jan A. Pechenik, Getting to the Heart of Science Communication by Faith Kearns, Mythos by Stephen Fry, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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 22 May 2021.