Spotlight - Chris Mah (4/5)

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Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Welcome to our Spotlight Series! We’re talking paleo-science with some paleo-people! In this 5-part series, we’ve interviewed 5 different invertebrate paleontologists about their research and other work. It's Episode 4, and this time we have Dr. Chris Mah with us to explain the science of studying sea stars - past and present - and what it takes (or at least, what it has taken him) to run a science blog! Find Chris in these places:Twitter: @echinoblog The Echinoblog, echinoblog.blogspot.com If you like Spotlight, let us know and we'll do more of it in the future! Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. And hello, Chris. Hello. How are you today? Good.
0:25.6	Quite good. And hello, listeners. We hope you are good as well. Welcome back to our Common Descent Spotlight mini-series.
0:33.6	In this series, if you've been listening, this is part four, then you will know that
0:39.0	what we're doing here is changing it up from our normal setup where we discuss scientific topics,
0:44.4	and instead focusing on scientific people in our favorite field of science. For this run of this
0:50.9	mini-series, if we do more in the future, we have chosen the theme of invertebrate paleontology.
0:56.2	And today we are joined by invertebrate paleontologist, Dr. Christopher Ma.
1:01.8	Hello, Chris.
1:02.5	Would you mind to introduce yourself?
1:04.3	Certainly.
1:05.1	A pleasure to be listening or to be presenting.
1:09.0	I'm a curator, or not a curator, but I'm a research associate at the National
1:13.4	Museum of Natural History. I work on the evolution and diversity of both living and fossil
1:20.0	sea stars, which is a fairly narrow band of research. I focus mainly on living sea star species, but I've done my share of fossil
1:31.5	taxa and exploring the long evolutionary history of sea stars. And so calling me a paleontologist
1:39.9	is fine on any number of days.
1:45.4	Wonderful.
1:48.3	Well, then you qualify to be here, and we're happy to have you.
1:49.5	I sure hope so.
1:57.7	Now, we understand that amusingly, just like any group of animals, the C-Stars have a scientific family name, and they are named for their shape from the root word
2:03.3	astor, they are called asteroids, correct?
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