Earth News Interviews

01/03/2021

Happy Monday and happy new podcast! In this episode, we take a detour into space and talk with Dr. Diana Valencia, Associate Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto Scarborough about how we can determine the composition of exoplanets that are tens to hundreds of light-years away without taking any samples. Listen to it on your favorite podcast app or online: https://earthnewsinterviews.podbean.com/e/compositions-of-exoplanets-and-their-stars-with-diana-valencia/

The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Less than 30 years after this initial discovery that won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than 4000 exoplanets have been confirmed (NASA). These planets, while unique, have ...

19/02/2021

Have you heard our latest episode? This week we spoke to Joseph Desloges, a professor at the Geography and Planning Department at the University of Toronto. We discuss topics like accurate flood risk assessment, geoengineering solutions, and what have been the key human-driven changes that have left our cities exposed to flood-related damages. Check it out on your favorite podcast listening app or on Podbean: https://earthnewsinterviews.podbean.com/e/flood-risks-and-hazards-with-joseph-desloges/

With natural disasters become more frequent and damaging, how can we accurately access who's at risk without updated information and predictions? The answer is we can't. That's why accurate risk and hazard mapping is essential for both private homeowners a...

09/02/2021

We were recently interviewed for a piece in The Varsity!

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01/02/2021

New episode alert!!! This week we spoke to Marc Laflamme, a paleoclimate and paleontology expert at UTM. If you're interested in extinction events and how organisms out-compete one another, this one is going to be a treat. Check it out on your favorite podcast listening app or on Podbean: https://earthnewsinterviews.podbean.com/e/the-life-and-legend-of-the-ediacaran-biota-with-marc-laflamme/

Imagine if you lived in a world where some humans evolved the ability to fly, use one hundred percent of their brainpower, or the ability to reproduce at twice the normal rate. These evolved humans would certainly have an evolutionary advantage over the re...

25/01/2021

Have you heard our recent episodes? Keep a lookout for a new episode next Monday with Dr. Marc Laflamme, associate professor of Paleoclimate and Paleontology at UTM.

20/01/2021

We just reached 1000+ downloads on Podbean! We wanted to reach out and say thank you to the listeners of the podcast, your support means a lot to us and we hope you have enjoyed the episodes so far. We have a lot of exciting new episodes coming in the next couple of months where we venture into topics that we haven't explored yet like paleontology, space, climate change hazards, and more. Check out our page on your favorite listening app every two weeks for new episodes. In case you've missed them, here are some of our previous episodes.

11/08/2020

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22/06/2020

Our second episode is now live! Our guest Dr. Melissa Anderson is an expert in deep sea exploration and mineral resources. Tune in to hear about the future of Economic Geology - a discipline in the Earth Sciences that will play an integral role in the energy revolution over the next century.

Check it out on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcasts, or here:

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In this episode we discuss the field of Economic Geology with Dr. Melissa Anderson. We touch on many timely questions concerning the role of this field in the next century: What have we learned from its history? What are the new frontiers of mining in practice and research? Why is mining so integral...

15/06/2020

Our first episode is live! Ever wanted to know what really happened to the dinosaurs? In this episode we sit down with Professor Charly Bank and discuss a new finding that may just settle the longstanding debate.

Listen to our episode via Podbean, Spotify or iTunes! (Apple Podcasts and Google Play coming soon).

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We hope you enjoy!

In our inaugural episode of Earth News Interviews, we get into a discussion about the K-Pg extinction event with geophysicist and extinction aficionado, Dr. Charly Bank. We learn about the discovery of a flood layer in North Dakota which may have been depo...

15/06/2020

Welcome to Earth News Interviews!

We are your hosts Dean and Sofia and we are undergraduate students in our senior year studying Earth Science at the University of Toronto.

Each week, we sit down with an earth scientist and discuss the most recent developments in their field and how these discoveries impact all of us. We hope to uncover some of the mysteries behind natural phenomena and spread awareness about this wonderful science.

Our podcast is supported by the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto.