Deep-Sea Geobiology w/ Jeffrey Marlow

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Marlow, a science journalist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and Geobiologist at Harvard University who studies deep-sea microbes. They talk about the importance of innovative technology to the scientific process, as well as the curious link between marine microbial communities and potential life on other worlds.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 22nd, 2019 and I'm
0:18.0	your host Kara Santa Maria. I'm really excited about this week's episode but before we dive in I want to thank those of you who made talk nerdy possible.
0:26.0	Now that includes Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Phil Tiber, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Gabriel, Felipe
0:36.2	Herr Emil Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell. And if you want to hear
0:40.4	your name called out right here at the top of the show.
0:43.3	All you've got to do is go to Patreon.com slash talk nerdy and
0:47.4	pledge your support.
0:49.2	All right guys, this is a really fun one this week.
0:52.0	I sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Marlow. Now he is working on his
0:57.2	postdoc actually at Harvard right now and he's doing some really incredible research on you know
1:06.2	developing new tools so that he can see microbial communities right
1:11.0	there in their native habitats on the ocean floor.
1:15.0	Really, really cool stuff.
1:18.0	He's also a science writer, a freelance science writer.
1:21.0	He does a lot of science communication, and even more than that, he is a
1:28.0	Nat Geo Emerging Explorer. So much cool stuff there. We're going to talk about some great science. So I don't know why are we waiting? What are we waiting for? Without any further ado here he is Dr. Jeffrey Marlow.
1:42.0	Well Jeff, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:45.0	Well, of course, yeah, thanks for having me.
1:47.0	I am so excited that we're finally able to make this work.
1:50.0	We tried to connect previously and, well, let's just say that when the new OS
1:56.0	downloaded on my Mac none of my hardware played nice with it and I had to download
2:00.7	all sorts of new software and firmware for some of my
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