Oh, Hey guys and welcome to talk nerdy. It's Monday March 20th and I'm your host

Kara Santa Maria. This week we will be chatting with a PhD candidate from

Caltech who is focused on atmospheric chemistry. His name is Kelvin Bates and

will be with him in just a moment. But before we jump in,

I want to thank those of you who made TalkNurdy possible this week. Now remember,

TalkNurdy is and will always be 100% free to download. I want to ensure that that is always

the model for the show and in order to do that I really do rely heavily on support from

listeners like you. There's two ways that you can support the show financially.

You can visit Karazanta Maria.com and click on the PayPal portal to make a one-time contribution or you can go to

Patreon.com slash Talk Nurdy and pledge your support on an episodic basis.

Those of you who did that this week include on the paypal portal Ulrechano from Germany.

Can't pronounce the city you're from, but thank you so much for your contribution and also Rob Schreck from Chicago.

Thank you guys so much and those of you who pledged the top level support through

Patreon include Phil T-Bere, Timothy Glover, Mark Hepburn, Pedro

M Rosario Barbosa, Christian Jeffrey David Lacer, Jeffrey Perez, Stuart Augg, The Honorable Husband, Charles Payet, Jafe, Gabriel Felipe Halimiro

Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

Also there are a couple other ways you can support the show, most of which you can find by visiting my website.

I do have a talk nerdy store where I have some super cool swag like t-shirts and a couple different types of t-shirts some hand-thrown mugs by an

incredible potter named HP bloomer and some hand-tooled leather pieces.

Let's see I've got key chains and bookmarks by Foster Leathercraft.

But I'm also really excited to report that the tiny thinkers book, Charlie and the the Tortoise is back in stock. It was written by

M.J. Moton and I wrote the the forward to it and you can order it either as an unsigned copy or a signed copy and this whole

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