Here Rachel is explaining the type of Airboat that she uses as a wetlands ecologist in the US!I recently had a great chat with Rachel Villani from Louisiana! We had made contact through Twitter as I had seen back in September that she was doing podcasts on Antarctica and wanted to speak to people that have worked in the field.
One of my major goals whilst being within the science world is to communicate what I do and hopefully inspire others. I also think that within the scary online world that there are some fantastic tools out there, one of them being Twitter if you use it in the right way. I use Twitter to keep up to date with the latest science, policies, ideas, and also network. Zoom is also a great tool to have a virtual meeting and Rachel uses it to record her podcasts.
Storytellers of STEMM is the podcast Rachel hosts, "since January 2020. Everyone has a story, and these are the stories of the people in STEMM - their successes, career paths, research, fieldwork, struggles, and everything in between. Each episode features a different storyteller and new episodes come out every Tuesday (and sometimes more frequently)!"
You can listen to our podcast here! We cover so many different things, mostly what work I am doing currently at SAMS, working as Marine Assistant at Rothera, Research vessel work, NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Programme and going up to the Arctic, transport aquarium, diving, microplastics, PhDs, developing your career, wetlands in the US, comparing UK and US!!
If anyone wants to speak to Rachel and be on her podcast then you can contact her through her website!