Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, October 28th, 2019.

It's almost Halloween you guys. And I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. We've got a great episode coming up for you but first I want to thank those of you who make Talk Nurdy possible each and every week

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Eureka Hagman. Oh, I'm so sorry. I totally mispronounce your name.

I think it's Ul Rika. Ulricha Hagman. New supporter.

Thank you, thank you so much. You also wrote me a really sweet letter.

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All right, this week we have a really, really interesting chat. So I sit down with Dr.

Sore Kim. She's an assistant professor at the University of California Merced School of Natural Sciences,

which is in this really interdisciplinary field.

Her research kind of converges on paleo ecology, climate change, environmental reconstruction, and stable isotope biogeochemistry.

Don't worry, she's going to explain what that means.

But ultimately, what we talk about is better understanding global

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