Episode #294: Drilling for Ashes - with Dr. Joanne Ballard

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

We met Dr. Ballard at the Cosmic Summit, and decided we'd love to have her on the podcast to discuss her work. She is a Geologist and Biogeographist, and a member of the Comet Research Group. She became interested in the YDIH and started drilling lake cores looking for evidence of biomass burning.
She joins us this episode to discuss her background, her interest in the YDIH, and her related field and lab work, as well as some of her current interests and possible future projects.

You can find out more about her here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research

Links to her thesis as discussed in the episode:

A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463

Joanne Ballard PhD Dissertation, https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/
Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A.

She also sent us a lot of interesting links to articles and papers after the episode, listed below:

Sergei Leshchinskiy study on bony malformation of late Pleistocene mammoths of Siberia and Poland, acidification of the landscape
https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0081-new-theory-on-why-the-woolly-mammoth-became-extinct/?comm_order=best
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/616417

Did inbreeding doom the mammoths - fossils from the North Sea, Jelle Reumer
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-inbreeding-doom-mammoth

Pygmy mammoths of the Channel Island of California
https://www.amazon.com/Pygmy-Mammoths-Channel-Islands-California/dp/0962475084

Other late occurring relict populations of mammoths occurred on Wrangei Island (Siberia), Pribolof Island, St Paul Island.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040618070946.htm#:~:text=Using%20accelerator%20mass%20spectrometer%20(AMS,after%20the%20last%20glacial%20maximum.

Hartnagel and Bishop 1921. Online book, read about Mastodons, Mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York state, buried in the peat. 161 pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9rxRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Blue Babe, bison carcass 50,000 years old, Professor Dale Guthrie
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska

A North American permafrost study. For reference regarding the shaken--not stirred cocktail of mammals/trees/sediments/ice.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.12036

Transcript

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0:00.0	Drilling for Ashes with Dr. Joanne Ballard.
0:07.0	You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:10.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and and girls angels and demons and monsters and
0:23.0	the serpents this is brothers of the serpent podcast and we are coming to you not live this week
0:28.4	from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient
0:34.0	seabed high atop the Edwards plateau we. We are joined by The Watcher this week.
0:41.3	He is here.
0:42.6	He is watching.
0:43.8	He is going to be helping us out with this show.
0:45.3	Thanks for coming on, buddy.
0:46.7	Really appreciate it.
0:48.2	But we're also joined by a special guest, Dr. Joanne Ballard, who is a geographer geologist.
0:54.7	She specializes in analyzing lake sediment cores, paleo wildfires, and she is a member of the Comet Research Group.
1:02.2	Dr. Ballard, thank you very much for coming on the show. Thank you.
1:05.8	Thank you for having me.
1:07.7	So we met you at the Cosmic Summit and you were on stage answering questions a little bit after
1:17.8	Mark Young's presentation. Right. Sorry, I was very distracted during the summit. He was nervous.
1:24.5	I was nervous and I had my own presentation to do, so I didn't get to see a lot of things
1:28.2	and I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention,
1:29.6	but we're glad to have you on the show.
1:32.4	And can you tell us a little bit about your background
1:35.3	and how you got involved with the Comet Research Group?
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