490 - Christa Seidl (Biology Researcher: Endangered Species)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Christa is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, researching endangered species and the stressors on ecosystems that lead to extinction events. She schools me on everything from evolutionary theory to the fascinating worlds of viruses and bacteria to what it's like to hang from tall trees in Madagascar. My favorite kind of podcast: a chance encounter leads to a surprising conversation with a very smart person. I've got the best job in the world!

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; "Nganga Kisi" by Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0	Radio mano, papà c'ango
0:30.0	Ciao, Chris, in il tuo tangentially speaking community
0:34.0	This is Mike, also known as Ride Farm Swing
0:38.0	on the subreddit of tangentially speaking
0:42.0	I'm calling in from a beautiful piece of land
0:48.0	just south of the NIMO BC
0:50.0	on Vancouver Island Canada
0:52.0	what can only be described as
0:54.0	the nicest part of Canada
0:56.0	in an area in transition
0:58.0	where I'm standing
1:00.0	at one point was beautiful pristine land
1:04.0	occupied by the first nations
1:08.0	and then it was taken over and logged
1:10.0	in the 1800s and then turned into a gravel pit
1:14.0	in the 1980s and then
1:16.0	after the gravel was fully extracted the area
1:20.0	started to regrow naturally with first series
1:22.0	succession plants of cottonwood trees
1:24.0	and then I took it over
1:26.0	and now I've been building it with my partner
1:28.0	into a lifeboat that we really hope to
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