Balkanologists are usually inside doing work or outside doing work, but sometimes they'll wander around over the overlook. You may be standing next to a balkanologist and not know it. So we look like normal humans. And that's what i think is so important these days for scientists. We have to be telling people why we love what we do,. What makes it so cool. But then, you know, when you're a balchnologist, youre like, yess, i get up in the morning and i have to pay the water bill reso. I've done work in ecuator on a more like eruptive currenty, currently erupting volcanoes
In this first episode of Ologies, Alie Ward chats with volcanologist Jess Phoenix who also happens to be running for Congress. Learn how hot magma is, how volcanoes are formed, how screwed the Pacific Northwest is, what thrills Jess about volcanoes, and what to do if surrounded by horse bandits. Also: some valuable information about haunted lava tubes.
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Music by Nick Thorburn
Production by Jason Scardamalia and Steven Ray Morris