Innovative Educational Technologies in Geoscience

This week we are joined by paleontologist Dr. Phoebe Cohen (@PhoebeFossil) from Williams. She studies microscopic single-cell fossils from before there were animals.

• Undergrad at Cornell, wanting to be in biology… landed in earth system science
• Strongly influenced by the book “Life on a young planet”
• Grad school at Harvard
• 1/2 post-doc, 1/2 education-outreach at MIT
• Gigapan Photography
• Cambridge Science Festival
• The Story Collider Podcast
• Phoebe’s TEDed video

Useful Apps/Programs

• Wunderlist
• Evernote
• ImageJ
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Google Calendar
• Papers
• Strides
• 7 Minute Workout

Fun Paper Friday

This week we read about the nutrition of gut bacteria in a baby and how it can influence their behavior. You can also follow the author on Twitter: @Mammals_Suck

Allen-Blevins, C. R., Sela, D. A., & Hinde, K. (2015). Milk Bioactives May Manipulate Microbes to Mediate Parent-Offspring Conflict. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eov007. http://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov007

Contact us:

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin