Skylar Bayer: Phoning Home From Alvin
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Marine biologist Skylar Bayer faces her fears to go on a deep-ocean dive aboard the Alvin submersible, and ends up getting more than she expected. Skylar Bayer is a native to the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. She has been pursuing a career in marine science since the age of eight and is currently working on her PhD in marine reproductive ecology at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. She manages, edits and writes for the blog, Strictlyfishwrap (www.strictlyfishwrap.com), sharing anecdotal science stories, and writes for the National Shellfish Association newsletter. This past year she was featured on the Colbert Report in a field report piece on the epic case of the missing scallop gonads. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt a... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt like. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.7 | This week's story is from Skylar Bear. |
| 0:33.0 | The story was recorded in January 2014 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:38.1 | The theme of the evening was charting new territory. |
| 0:49.1 | So almost a year ago now, I was sitting in a room with my dad, just across the river actually, |
| 0:56.3 | talking about the science of, I think, protein folding or neurotransmission or something that I |
| 1:05.3 | don't understand, even though I like claim to being a biologist. And these kinds of conversations have gone on my entire |
| 1:12.7 | life where my dad says, hey, Sky, did you read about the science thing? And I'm like, no, dad, I didn't |
| 1:18.6 | read about the science thing. And he proceeds to tell me all about the science thing. And somewhere when |
| 1:23.0 | he's talking, I say, well, shit, I should probably go look that up. |
| 1:28.8 | And then I go read about it later. |
| 1:36.4 | And I think my favorite memory of this from when I was a kid, I was probably about 10 years old, the Internet had just sort of taken off, and my dad's a computer programmer, and |
| 1:42.1 | he's like, hey, Sky, have you surfed the web yet? |
| 1:45.1 | And I was like, you know, are we going to the beach? |
| 1:50.1 | Did we go to the beach? |
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