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As a part of the Faculty of Science summer outreach program, Ask a Scientist, the first episode of our podcast Sociographies has been released. Listen to it by clicking the link below or find us on the apple podcast app or google play. Below is a description of what you will hear in our first episode:

Episode 1: Kimberley Davies, Oceanographer

She went from creating her own poetry zines to publishing her first scientific paper in Nature Geoscience while she was an undergrad. Oceanographer and post-doctoral fellow Kimberley (Kim) Davies tells us about growing up on the West Coast, her transformative experience watching humpback whales in Haida Gwaii and how she still gets sea sick every time she boards a ship. When the endangered North Atlantic right whale population off the east coast of North America lost 12 members last summer in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Dr. Davies was considered one of the key experts on the case. She was often asked to explain the situation in national and international news coverage. In this episode of Sciographies, Dr. Davies also explains how her past and current research helps decision makers understand more about these whales and where they go to find food.

Listen to the podcast here.