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Ok huge shoutout to my friend @bead.around.the.bush for making me these amazing earrings! I've posted about North Pacific right whales a couple times on here, but this is the epitome of my nerdiness. Who says I can't represent endangered species with my earrings? No one. Kelp is a backbone of our oceans. It provides habitat for other creatures and captures sunlight, turning that sun energy into food for itself and then whatever eats the kelp. In this sun-to-food process (aka photosynthesis), kelp also gives off oxygen just like trees. So next time you breathe, you can thank a kelp! If it's a deep breath, maybe thank a giant kelp. If it's a small breath, kudos to a rockweed. Super thankful that I have a day (and sometimes night) job that gets me outside and requires nerding out about nature. I'm stoked about our planet 100% of the time, but days like today are always a little special: we got the boat (aka my office) back in the water after a week of land maintenance and the weather is absolutely incredible. Cheers to outdoor education and the ball of gas and rock and water we all inhabit. Happy Earth Day everyone! Here are a few more creature profiles! I've been updating my Webtoon with them regularly (new ones every Monday) but I also FINALLY got around to uploading the past few months of them on my website. You can find links to both places in my bio. Sulfur is everywhere. "In you, in me, in cyanobacteria, in dolphins... it doesn't matter, they've all got sulfur." - @thegeojesse My first ever fanart! Smudgy is a North Pacific right whale living in... well, the North Pacific. North Pacific right whales off the American coast are critically endangered, with only 30 left in their population. Smudgy is one of those 30, and she was spotted playing with a log at the surface of the water in 2009. This month marks a year since I finally admitted to myself that Go Forth and Science was actually happening. I ironed out podcast logistics, uploaded it to streaming services, and started thinking ahead about what guests I wanted on board. And I'm so glad I did. I've had amazing conversations with rad people over the past year, and I've gotten to share those conversations with you. Well, parts of those conversations. Each interview normally lasts around an hour, but then I have to cut it down to fit into a 20 minute episode. Bloopers get cut, tangents get shortened, and unfortunately not every fun fact makes the final draft. But in celebration of this first anniversary, I'm going back to some of those outtakes. Hopefully they make you smile, laugh, and get stoked about our world. A couple months ago I was interviewed for @mainewomenmagazine! I drew a comic for the article about how salt marshes need room to move inland as sea levels rise and change their ecosystem. Salt marshes provide great habitat for all sorts of animals and help calm waves and storm surges, so they're pretty dang important. When I'm not wandering outside, I'm usually on the computer. And while I've accumulated a gross number of screen-time hours over the last year, I try to mix up what I'm doing each day. Switching from podcasting to art to work keeps things interesting, even if my world stays the same small screen.
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