Ep. 12 - Tom, Benjamin, and Raquel - 4/10/18

Lab Talk with Laura

On this episode we are joined by Raquel Bryant and Benjamin Keisling, PhD candidates in the Geoscience Dept. at UMass Amherst and co-founders of the BRIDGE program to bring early-career scientists to speak at UMass. Raquel explains what single-cell organisms called forams can tell us about the ocean that covered the western North America during the Cretaceous 90 million years ago. Benjamin discusses his coring expeditions to the Ross Sea and on the Greenland ice sheet and why he wouldn't have wanted to sail on the Beagle. Comedian and poet Tom McCauley joins as co-host.