Longitude Sound Bytes

In this episode, Longitude fellow Roxanna Mendez speaks with Shellye Arnold, president and CEO of Memorial Park Conservancy about the large-scale transformations at Houston’s Memorial Park and the master planning processes that are bringing them to fruition.See transcript at https://longitude.site/houstons-memorial-park/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students and recent graduates are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site. Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Louis Noel speaks with Helen Little, a mechanical engineer at Axiom Space, about how her artistic background enriches her diverse engineering endeavors and vice versa.See transcript at https://longitude.site/engineering-and-creative-mindset/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students and recent graduates are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Maria Rodriguez speaks with Graham Peers, professor of biology at Colorado State University, about his unique research projects, including approaches to removing toxic materials from the lunar soil to enable plant growth.See transcript at https://longitude.site/biology-beyond-earth/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students and recent graduates are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Louis Noel speaks with Jacob Beckham, post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology his path in academia, communicating science, and leveraging creativity.See transcript at https://longitude.site/approaches-to-fueling-scientific-creativity/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students and recent graduates are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Shem Brown speaks with Christin Davis, head of acting in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, about her experiences in theater and film.See transcript at https://longitude.site/language-as-consciousness/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Emory Mckenzie speaks with Brian Michael Cooper, president and COO of American Flag Football League, about his vision for AFFL and the sport’s expansion internationally.See transcript at https://longitude.site/new-era-of-american-flag-football/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.  Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Emory Mckenzie speaks with Brandon Dugan, a geosciences professor at Colorado School of Mines, about the freshwater resource found under the Atlantic seabed, his approach to science and mentoring students.See transcript at https://longitude.site/unconventional-freshwater-resources/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Louis Noel speaks with Rowland Pettit, physician-scientist focused on biotech and healthcare, about how science is funded and his approach to increasing efficiency with the help of AI.See transcript at https://longitude.site/tips-on-science-funding-communication-and-ai/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site. Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Joanna McDonald speaks with Nina Kraus, a professor at Northwestern University and the author of “Of Sound Mind: How our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world.”See transcript at https://longitude.site/understanding-effects-of-noise/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Dominique Dulièpre speaks with Peter Denton, an associate physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, about detecting invisible particles named neutrinos.See transcript at https://longitude.site/detecting-invisible-particles/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Keegan Leibrock speaks with Scott Solomon, a specialist in evolutionary biology and science communication, and a professor of Biosciences at Rice University.See transcript at https://longitude.site/communicating-science/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Ali Kazmaz speaks with Scott Pfeiffer, Partner at Threshold Acoustics LLC.See transcript at https://longitude.site/acoustics-in-architecture/ We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

In this episode, Longitude fellow Louis Noel speaks with Vivas Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder of Mitra Chem, about decision-making in leadership.See transcript at https://longitude.site/decision-making-in-leadership/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

Peter Sooy is the public outreach lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the Webb Telescope and the Roman Telescope that is next in line. In this episode, Louis Noel, a recent graduate from Rice University speaks with him about what the day-to-day activities entails in communicating complex engineering missions to lay audiences.See transcript. This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore partnerships for our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well. Support the show

Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester Institute of Technology who conducts research on how galaxies form and evolve over time. Her COSMOS-Webb project received one of the initial research grants to study the images from JWST. In this episode, Zehra Karakilic, a neuroscience student from Tilburg University speaks with her about what it entails to explore galaxies and how students get involved in her research projects.See transcript.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore partnerships for our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show

Dr. Alison Nordt is the director of space science and instrumentation at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center. In this episode, Louis Noel, a recent graduate of the Master of Engineering Management and Leadership program from Rice University speaks with her about the Near Infrared Camera and the partnerships that made the Webb telescope a success. See transcript.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore partnerships for our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show

Mei-Li Hey is a mechanical design engineer at Northrop Grumman. In this episode, Ali Kazmaz, an architecture student from Rice University, speaks with her about her contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope project and how an internship shaped her career in design engineering.See transcrtipt.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore partnerships for our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show

Dr. Matthew Greenhouse is an infrared astronomer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In this episode, Keegan Leibrock, a political science and economics student from Rice University speaks with him about the path that led him to working on the James Webb Space Telescope, how it is inspiring new projects to look even further into space and explore new dimensions.See transcript.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore partnerships for our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show

A conversation with Hugh Broughton, an English architect and one of the world's leading designers of polar research facilities. In this episode, Angela Xie and Jessica Shi, architecture students from Rice University, speak with him about the Halley VI Research Station that Hugh Broughton Architects built in Antarctica. See transcript. As part of our focus on scientific explorations in harsh environments, we bring conversations that shed light on fascinating projects that help us understand our planet and make life on earth better. This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would be interested to sponsor our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show

A conversation with Linda Welzenbach Fries, a geologist who served as public outreach coordinator and sediment processor for the THOR (Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research) team on the first ITGC science cruise aboard the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer. In this episode, Louis Noel a graduate student from Rice University, speaks to her about the daily scientific activities on the research vessel and her contributions in different roles. See transcript. Visit our series page. As part of our focus on scientific explorations in harsh environments, we bring conversations that shed light on fascinating projects that help us understand our planet and make life on earth better. In our Antarctica Expeditions series, episodes 111 through 114, you will hear from scientists and curators about the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites program and a ship-based expedition for seafloor sampling at the Thwaites Glacier. This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would be interested to sponsor our programming, please write to us at podcast@longitude.site.We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends who may enjoy as well.Support the show