This week we speak with two amazing marine scientists! Valesca de Groot and Megan Halliwell-Davies are both super smart, so funny and are natural communicators. We speak about their experiences becoming marine biologists, the abyss, seals in BATHUBS, decomposing bodies at the bottom of the ocean, fish ear bones and MORE! Here is that photograph Valesca speaks about from her dive and here is that article about algae being used to reduce methane emissions from cows! Enjoy the episode... if you love the ocean from the surface to the inky depths of the abyss, you will love this hilarious and informative chat.

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This is our last episode of the season! Stay tuned for updates about our next season and reach out to us to say hello on our Instagram!

Happy New Year!

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This week we speak with a dear friend and mentor Mark Maftei! Mark is the executive director of the non-profit Raincoast Education Society (Maddys' former place of work!!) on Tla-o-qui-aht territory (in Tofino, BC). We talk about everything this amazing outdoor education non-profit does, what being a field biologist in Antarctica is like and why watching clouds is so important!

Keen for more? NatureFolx also creates a monthly ~~~ Nature Digest ~~~ full of amazing facts, ecological knowledge, plant and animal identification and interesting ecology articles! When you become a patreon supporter, you get one of these guides delivered to you every single month! You can subscribe to support our podcast and receive one of these digests every month here! These episodes take a lot of work and your subscription supports that, while also supporting proven climate change solutions!

Stay tuned for our next episode, we publish a new and exciting interview every other Wednesday! To stay up to date about who is coming up on our podcast next, follow our Instagram!

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Tim Tully talks with us about land trusts, wonderful wetlands, troubling turtles and the beauty and changing landscape of Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga and Mississauga First Nations territory - Lake Huron and southern Ontario. If you are a resident or know these lands well, this will be a truly illuminating conversation for you! Here is the link for the mentioned book by John Riley, highlighting some of the Indigenous history of the so-called Great Lakes region. If you are interested in the immensely profound and moving read: "Braiding Sweetgrass", check it out here. Kimmerer interweaves ecology and Indigenous knowledge into a collection of incredibly unique essays.

Keen for more? NatureFolx also creates a monthly ~~~ Nature Digest ~~~ full of amazing facts, ecological knowledge, plant and animal identification and interesting ecology articles! When you become a patreon supporter, you get one of these guides delivered to you every single month! You can subscribe to support our podcast and receive one of these digests every month here! These episodes take a lot of work and your subscription supports that, while also supporting proven climate change solutions!

Stay tuned for our next episode, we publish a new and exciting interview every other Wednesday! To stay up to date about who is coming up on our podcast next, follow our Instagram!

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