Ep. 399 - Remembering a Cycad Defender
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In Defense of Plants
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🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This episode is dedicated to the memory of world-renowned cycad expert Dr. Nathalie Nagalingum who sadly passed away. I first spoke with Dr. Nagalingum back in 2017 where she opened my eyes to the plight of cycads. Did you know that cycads are the most endangered group of organisms on the planet? We are officially facing a cycad crisis but luckily there are people like Dr. Nathalie Nagalingum from the California Academy of Sciences who have devoted their life to understanding and protecting these so-called living fossils. This episode was produced in part by Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the In Defensive Plants Podcast, the official podcast of |
| 0:04.3 | IndefensiblePlants.com. |
| 0:05.8 | What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How is everyone doing this week? |
| 0:09.5 | This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Natalie Nagalingham, who unfortunately |
| 0:14.6 | passed away back in August. Dr. Nagalingham was an incredible botanist who had a special |
| 0:19.9 | fondness for Sycads and their conservation. |
| 0:22.7 | And her work really put Scycads at the forefront of many people's minds. |
| 0:26.1 | Mine included. |
| 0:27.1 | I originally spoke to Dr. Nangalingham back in 2017, and she really changed the way I looked |
| 0:32.0 | at Sikads and thought about endangered species and the way we approach conservation on this planet. |
| 0:36.9 | And I hope this conversation |
| 0:38.0 | can give you a taste of what she as a scientist was all about. So let's just jump right into it. |
| 0:42.6 | Without further ado, here's my conversation with Dr. Natalie Nagalingam and I am a curator at the California Academy of Sciences. |
| 1:07.4 | I work on two groups of plants. |
| 1:10.1 | I work on ferns and I also work on a group of |
| 1:13.4 | plants called the Psycats and psychads are really prehistoric plants and so I started off my |
| 1:18.8 | career as a paleobotanist and psychads have a really long fossil record and so that's how I started |
| 1:24.8 | working on psychads because I was curious about how old they |
| 1:28.4 | were and why they've survived for so many millions of years. |
| 1:32.3 | That's awesome. |
| 1:33.5 | As a little fossil hunting nut that I grew up being, I really kind of speaks to me on the |
| 1:39.2 | inside. |
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