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The Common Descent Podcast

Voices of La Brea - Bonus Episode

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We were in southern California for NAPC recently, so we sat down with a bunch of the crew from La Brea to get some insights into their work, their history, and their favorite things about the site. In this audio, you’ll hear from: Dr. Emily Lindsey, Assistant Curator and Excavation Site Director Dr. Mairin Balisi, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow Laura Tewksbury-Wall, Senior Preparator Sean Campbell, Preparator Connie Clarke, Preparator Students from the La Brea Tar Pits Field School Thanks to everyone who spoke with us! Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent 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. Muscial Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

0:19.0

Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, listeners. This is a bonus episode.

0:23.6

Bonus. We just released episode 67 about the Libreya Tar Pits. This is a bonus companion to that episode, which we're calling Voices of Libreya.

0:34.6

Some supplemental data for you. See, we were in Southern California for

0:39.3

NAPC recently, as you've heard if you've listened to recent episodes of the podcast. And while we

0:45.1

were there, not only did we take the opportunity to learn about La Brea, but we actually got to hang

0:50.1

out and sit down with some of the LeBreya crew. Yeah. And a bunch of them agreed to let us interview them,

0:57.7

pick their brains a little bit about their work that they do there,

1:01.6

their history, their favorite things about working at La Brea.

1:06.4

And that's what this is going to be.

1:07.8

This is a little anthology of short interviews.

1:10.3

Yes.

1:10.6

Some, a collection of our favorite hits of everyone. And that's what this is going to be. This is a little anthology of short interviews. Yes.

1:15.3

A collection of our favorite hits of everyone we talked to.

1:19.1

A collection of our favorite parts of all the audio we recorded.

1:19.5

Yes.

1:20.5

It's literally everything.

1:27.3

In this audio, you will hear from such famed people as Dr. Emily Lindsay, assistant curator and excavation site director,

1:30.7

Dr. Myrene Belisi, who is an NSF postdoctoral research fellow,

1:35.7

Laura, Sean, and Connie, who are all preparators at the site, and at the end, a whole

1:43.1

bunch of students who are part of the Libreia Tar pits Field School.

1:47.6

It was a lot of fun getting a bunch of these together.

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