Hey everyone. How is the Nurd Corps doing today? I want to welcome you to a brand

new episode of Talk Nurdy. I am your host, Kara Santa Maria.

And I just want to take a minute to thank all of you

who listen each week, who support the podcast

in every way that you do.

Some of you do it by downloading listening. Some of you will rate and review on iTunes and Stitcher

which really does go a long way. Some of you have reached out and purchased some swag off of my website at kara Santa Maria.com.

That's huge because all the proceeds go to keeping the podcast, 100% free to download.

And some of you even make donations on the website.

There is a secure link to go through to PayPal

and that is a huge, huge help too.

So again, thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

You are the most awesome nerd core I could possibly

imagine and with that business out of the way I just want to go ahead and welcome

my guest this week I I'm going to be sitting down with Dr Alex

Lockwood. She is a newly minted PhD from Caltech. She is an astrophysicist, astronomer, planetary scientist extraordinary

scientist extraordinary air and she recently developed a novel technique for

learning more about the atmospheres of exoplanets.

She's also the host of PhD tours on PhD TV, that is a portion of PhD comics and she is the lead in the PhD movie playing

Cecilia PhD and if you don't know what any of that means just sit tight because you'll learn all about it with Dr. Alex Lockwood.

Alex, thank you so much for being here for making the trek all the way to Shay Santa Maria.

That's a bit far from Pasadena.

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