Spotlight - Ranjeev Epa (5/5)

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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. We wrap up this series by chatting with Ranjeev Epa about his research on the best animals ever (according to him), bivalves - that is, clams, oysters, etc. - and what preyed upon them in the distant past, and also about the paleo-PhD experience Find Ranjeev in these places:Twitter @RanjeevEpaResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ranjeev_Epa 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, Ranjeev. Hi, Will. Hello, David.
0:22.1	And hello, Ranjeev.
0:24.0	Hi, guys.
0:25.5	Welcome.
0:26.7	Welcome and hello to our listeners.
0:30.6	Welcome back to our special Common Descent Spotlight mini-series.
0:35.9	As you know, if you've been listening up to this point,
0:38.8	this series we break from the normal format of chatting about particular scientific topics
0:43.6	and instead focus on some scientific people. Over the mini-series, we've been following the theme
0:50.3	of invertebrate paleontology. This is the fifth of five in this series, and this for our
0:58.0	final episode, we are joined by invertebrate paleontologist, Ranjeev Appa. Would you please introduce
1:05.4	yourself to the listeners? Sure. I'm Ranjib Appa. I'm from Sri Lanka, which is a very beautiful
1:14.0	country just to the south of India. I got my bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of
1:22.1	Paradenia in Sri Lanka. I got my master's in geology from Ohio University, and I just started my second
1:30.9	year in my PhD program in geology here at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
1:37.0	Excellent. And your master's advisor was Dr. Alicia Stegal, correct?
1:42.3	Yes, she was my advisor. She was our guest in episode three of this series, so there's connections there.
1:49.0	Now, we love starting these series off by talking about the invertebrates that our guests study,
1:58.0	and you, we know, are a big fan of bivalves.
2:01.9	That is correct.
2:03.1	So can you start off by telling our listeners what are bivalves?
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