Ep.4 – Aquatic life, planaria and dragonflies with Marianne Denton (Aquatic Ecologist)

In this episode, I speak with Marianne Denton, an Aquatic Ecologist out of Nevada. We talk about invertebrates, going back to school as a mature student, and the fascinating way that dragonflies reproduce! We also talk about Marianne’s fascination with outer space!

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Timestamps:

• What does Marianne do as an aquatic ecologist? (0:40)
• What determines good water quality? (01:40)
• Are planaria actually worms? (03:59)
• Are planaria indicators of bad water quality? (05:11)
• Is it ok to take small samples of streams for fun? (07:15)
• Marianne’s favourite creatures (10:00)
• What’s so special about dragonflies? (11:26)
• Dragonfly reproduction is unique (13:07)
• Reproduction in sea slugs (15:47)
• Hashtag Invertefest (19:10)
• Science Twitter as a community (23:43)
• Going back to school as a mature student (26:29)
• It’s never too late to go back to school (30:48)
• Doing public outreach (34:01)
• Communicating science to adults (38:57)
• “Astro-limnology” and other fields in space science (44:22)
• How ‘astrobiology’ happens on Earth (46:00)
• Bacteria as extremophiles (49:47)
• Is there life outside of Earth? (51:56)
• Marianne’s collection of dresses (59:26)
• Parting remarks (101:50)

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