Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's Monday August 28th and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and this week we are going to be

chatting with Mary Ellen Hannibal. Her book, Citizen Scientists Searching for Heroes and Hope in

an Age of Extinction, is now available on paperback and we're going to talk a

lot about Citizen Science and what it means for the globe, what it means for

diversity, what it means for Mary Ellen personally and really what it means to me

as well. But before we dive into that, I want to thank those of you

who made Talk Nurdy possible this week.

I say it each week, and it bears repeating.

Talk Nurdyism will always be 100% free to download,

and that's only because of support from listeners like you. I had a lot of

great support this week. I want to thank specifically, let's see here.

Herbert Drower, I want to also thank Rob Schreck and I want to thank Christian Taylor for your support.

Those individuals,

click through the PayPal portal, which is on Karasanta Maria.com

and pledged a one-time supportive payment for the show.

And those of you who support the show on an episodic basis via my

Patreon portal I want to thank you as well and I want to give you a specific

shout out so let's see here. All right I want to thank Phil T-Bare,

Timothy Glover, Jeffrey Perez, Genji Keene, Charles Payet, Jonathan Wright,

Christian Jeffrey, Stuart Oogue, the Honorable Husband,

Jafe, Gabriel, Felipe, Harameel Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell.

And if you're wondering why I call out some of the same names each week. That's because they're

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