#96 - Antarctica Series 15: Alicia Purcell
Storytellers of STEMM
English - January 28, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today's storyteller is Alicia Purcell! She's a PhD candidate at Northern Arizona University, and her background is in microbial ecologist. In her own words, Alicia research is "using field based techniques to understand how the growth of soil microbes change in response to warming temperatures. I'm studying this both in Northern Arizona and on the Antarctic Peninsula". So in this episode Alicia tells me all about both her trips to Antarctica, how she got into the microbe world, about stable isotopes, and about subglacial lakes. We also talk about life in the desert, Arizona, and her field study area there too. While Alicia was at Palmer Station, she also got to meet a cohort from Homeward Bound, so she tells about her experience from an external point of view, and it was very interesting to hear her point of view. Enjoy!
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Recorded on 22 October 2020.