Phosphorus and The Environment w/ Dr. Jim Elser

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today we're talking phosphorus, from exploding stars to urine. Dr. Jim Elser is a limnologist, Director of Flathead Lake Biological Station at Yellow Bay, Bierman Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana, and the Director of Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance.

Phosphorus is as essential as water, carbon, or oxygen for agriculture and all life on earth. It's also a non-renewable resource with a natural cycle, which is rapidly accelerating due to human activity. But there are promising innovations in the works that can help offset our influence and solve our phosphorus inefficiencies.

You can also purchase the book on Amazon here.

Jim's Twitter

Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear? We are misfits
0:07.6	thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're
0:13.4	supposed to make sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre. Here we are.
0:20.5	Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast. I'm finally getting
0:25.1	settled in after the Mind Under Matter Campo Festival finally starting some
0:30.7	recordings again getting caught back up one of the wonderful benefits of doing
0:36.8	the festivals as I I reached out to a bunch of my past guests check in with them
0:42.6	see what they've been up to and and see who had any new books or anything like
0:48.9	that that's spun out recently and one of my guests I believe Jim you might have
0:54.8	been in year one of the here we are podcast. I think it was like seven years
0:59.2	ago that we passed. Yeah you probably don't even remember me. I remember I remember
1:04.8	it was good. You didn't have the beard. I think you're and you aren't you
1:09.5	aren't in Arizona anymore are you? I'm partially in Arizona. I'm at the
1:13.8	University of Montana now mostly and that's where I am sitting right now but in
1:18.7	wintertime cleverly I go to Arizona back to Arizona State University. Oh
1:23.5	that is very smart. I got to work out something like that. I do have a PhD so you
1:30.2	know I got to figure it out ahead to get a lot of education to get that smart I
1:35.0	guess. And so Jim also is someone who I've I follow all my old here we are guests
1:43.5	on on Twitter and his his account in particular is one that I've kept up
1:50.3	with we don't talk about environmental issues as much on the show as as I'd
1:56.0	always like to know I've been working with the One Health Initiative more and
2:00.3	more recently some of you listeners may be familiar with but so we've been
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Shane Mauss, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Shane Mauss and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.