Magdalena Blaszkiewicz (bioscience)

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enFebruary 15, 2024

January 24, 2024 update

You may have noticed we haven’t kept to our regular episode release schedule, and we wanted to send out a quick note to assure you that we’ll be back! We’ve had to do some staff juggling behind the scenes, and will be back to releasing episodes as soon as we are able.

Listen to this short update for some recommendations about past episodes to listen to!

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enJanuary 24, 2024

The Write Time with Meghan Wilson Duff (author)

This past August, Maine Science Podcast host Kate Dickerson was a guest interviewer on the National Writing Project’s The Write Time podcast, and spoke with Meghan Wilson Duff about their children’s’ book, How Are You, Verity? (Illustrated by Taylor Barron). Meghan is on the faculty in the Psychology & Community Studies program at University of Maine at Machias. Our thanks to the National Writing Project and Tanya Baker & Bryan Crandall for letting us rebroadcast this episode.

The conversation was recorded in August 2023, and aired on The Write Time in September.

To learn more about Meghan and their book, check out their website: https://www.meghanwilsonduff.com/.

To learn more about The National Writing Project, go to https://www.nwp.org/. Other episodes of The Write Time podcast are available in all the podcast places.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

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enDecember 28, 2023

Diane Rowland (natural science)

Diane Rowland is the Dean of the College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences (formerly Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture) and Director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station at the University of Maine. For most of her career, Diane has specialized in the physiological mechanisms of crop stress, particularly related to drought and crop water scarcity resilience. She pioneered the development of primed acclimation, a water management system that capitalizes on the nearly universal priming response in crop plants to enhance drought tolerance. Diane began her scientific career as a research plant physiologist and lead scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research

Our conversation was recorded in October 2023

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enNovember 30, 2023

Matt O'Malia (architecture)

Matt is an entrepreneur and award-winning architect with a nationwide reputation for innovation and expertise in the design of high performance residential and institutional buildings. A leader in Passive House design in North America and named to Architect Magazine’s Architect 50 list in 2018, he is a frequent speaker at sustainable design conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Matt has pursued a career based on exploration and innovation, working for architecture firms in New York and Germany, where he gained a thorough understanding of sustainable design and construction systems.

Matt was a speaker at the 2022 Maine Science Festival 5 Minute Genius(TM) event. Our conversation was recorded October 2023.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enNovember 02, 2023

Fayeza Ahmed (psychology)

Fayeza Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maine. She is the director of the Maine Health, Aging, and Lifestyle Lab, where the focus of her work is on the intersection of health factors/behaviors and cognitive functioning. Fayeza has been trained in Clinical Neuropsychology throughout her graduate and postdoctoral training, and is particularly interested in how cardiovascular health and modifiable health behaviors impacts the risk for developing dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Our conversation was recorded in June 2023.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enOctober 12, 2023

aging

pyschology

cardiovascular health

neuropsychology

clinical psychology

Jennifer Lund (apiarist)

Jennifer Lund is the Maine State Apiarist. She received her Master’s degree in Entomology from the University of Maine and has over 20 years of entomological experience. Aside from managing the honeybee inspection program and helping Maine beekeepers, Jennifer has several of her own hives she maintains on her farm.

This conversation was recorded in June 2023.

If you'd like to see/listen to Jen's 2020 talk to the Maine Entomological Society, it's online at https://www.maineentosociety.org/webinar-archive/whats-the-buzz-on-bees.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

To support the Maine Science Festival, Maine's first and only science festival available free of charge to all, please visit our donation page.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enSeptember 21, 2023

Alaina Weinheimer (ocean virology)

Alaina Weinheimer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences where she examines how bacteria fight viruses in the ocean. She is particularly interested in jumbo phages, which are phages with really large genomes (> 200 kb). Until recently, they have been largely overlooked in both culture-based and sequencing studies due to their unusually large size that rivals bacteria!

While pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Biology at Penn State, Alaina worked in coral reef ecology labs where she was exposed to the numerous threats to coral and the potential roles of microbes and viruses in mediating or exacerbating these threats.

Alaina was a 5 Minute Genius™ speaker for the 2023 Maine Science Festival; you can watch her talk on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/9GGe6kZfTHI?si=jcD4QnGj8GticN_J

Our conversation was recorded in June 2023.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

To support the Maine Science Festival, Maine's first and only science festival available free of charge to all, please visit our donation page.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enAugust 31, 2023

Jessica Leahy (human dimensions)

Jessica Leahy was born and raised in Alaska, adjacent to the second largest state park in the United States. She researches environmental attitudes and behaviors towards forests, forestry, and other natural resource management topics using a social psychology and communication approach. Her work focuses on four populations: outdoor recreationists, forest landowners, natural resource managers, and the “general public.”

Our conversation was recorded in June 2023.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Science Festival and Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

If you want to support the Maine Science Podcast and/or the Maine Science Festival, you can do so at our website mainesciencefestival.org at our donation page.

Find us online:

Website - Maine Science Festival

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

A program of the Maine Discovery Museum

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

enAugust 10, 2023

Dan Cortes (genetics)

Today's episode is a conversation I had with Dan Cortes who is an Associate research scientist in the Pera Lab at The Jackson Laboratory. Dan is originally from Mexico City, and he holds both an MD and a PhD; his research is focused on genetics, and he has a particular interest in exploring strokes.

Dan was a 5 Minute Genius™ speaker for the 2023 Maine Science Festival; you can watch his talk on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/77fDkYJTjHY

Our conversation was recorded in June 2023.

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Science Festival and Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

If you want to support the Maine Science Podcast and/or the Maine Science Festival, you can do so at our website mainesciencefestival.org at our donation page.

Find us online:

Website - Maine Science Festival

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

A program of the Maine Discovery Museum

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The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Discovery Museum. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. The Maine Science Podcast is hosted and executive produced by Kate Dickerson; edited and produced by Scott Loiselle.

The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.

To support the Maine Discovery Museum: https://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/donate.

Find us online:

Maine Discovery Museum on social media: Facebook Instagram

Maine Science Festival on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Maine Science Podcast on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram