Cosmic Radio

Join me on Cosmic Radio as we speak with NASA's Johnson Space microbiologist Dr. Sarah Castro Wallace. Dr. Wallace evaluates the performance of the MinION DNA sequencer in-flight on the International Space Station (ISS). She and her team are in charge of the environmental monitoring of the ISS. Dr. Wallace's passion for her work is evident in this interview. She makes microbiology and DNA sequencing in space sound more fun than a spacewalk!Check out these links:Dr. Wallace's work: https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/dna-sequencing/Dr. Sarah Castro Wallace: Women in History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yJwXAFAMUGenes in Space: https://www.genesinspace.org/

Join me as we walk and talk through Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Mendocino County with Robert Douglas. Robert is a mycologist, biologist and Environmental Specialist with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. As we walk and discover this magical forest, camping site and destination location for fungi foragers, you can hear the Noyo River, song birds and Robert belting out owl calls!!!!Keep in mind this podcast was not recorded in the studio, so you will hear all the sounds of the forest, me breathing hard on the hike and me tripping a few times! Enjoy!!To learn more, check out these web sites!!Jackson Demonstration State Forest: https://www.visitmendocino.com/listing/jackson-demonstration-state-forest/CalFire JDSF: https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREJDSF/CalFire: https://www.fire.ca.gov/Mendocino Mushroom Club: https://www.mendocinocoastmushroomclub.org/Mendocino Foragers: https://www.foragemendocino.com/

Join me for a fascinating interview with Dr. David Hibbett, Biology Professor from Clark University who focuses on Evolutionary Mycology. Dr. Hibbett answers questions we all think about and want to know more about from the Fungal Kingdom. He is so fun and passionate about fungi and after listening to this interview, I hope that you will also become a "mycophile"!!! (lover of fungi)

Join me for our second interview with Dr. Peter Schultz. We've move on from the Chicxulub Impactor and into The Deep Impact Mission, the LCROSS mission and his current work in Chile! Check out the pictures and links I added for more information on his work and by next week I will add the rest of the interview I had to cut for time for the radio program.Dr. Shultz is so completely into his work, you cant help getting as excited as he does when you hear him talk about all his research and findings. I was blown away! He is one sick dude!!!

Learn all about NADS's newest flagship mission.....EUROPA CLIPPER!!!! Our good friend Todd Barber is make to tell us all the intricate parts of this modern marvel of spacecrafts that will be exploring the Galilean Moon EUROPA!!! A water-world in the Jovian System. Check out the links as well so you can see and play with the Clipper Vault Plate!!! https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Cosmic Radio host Elizabeth Garcia interviews Principal Investigator of NASA's Psyche Mission, Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Join us as we talk about an incredible space journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Dr. Elkins-Tanton tells us all about the Psyche asteroid, why she believes that it may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet and how she is going to test her hypothesis with this amazing solar-electric spacecraft.Psyche offers a unique window into the violent history of collisions and accretion that created terrestrial planets!

Robert Ferguson Observatory located in the Valley of the Moon, and within the Sugarloaf State Park (just outside of Santa Rosa, California) is a hidden jewel in Sonoma County. Listen to this interview with staff from the observatory and discovery this unique and well run center and find out all about its year-round events.Guest speakers:Stephanie Derammelaere- Executive DirectorDavid Cranford- Docent AstronomerOnce you hear about RFO it won't be "hidden" anymore!

A hidden jewel in Northern California-the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University!Dr. Lynn Cominsky is an award-winning Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University. Dr. Cominsky is the founder and director of SSU's EdEon STEM Learning, which develops educational materials for NASA, NSF and the US Department of Education and NASA's Neurodiversity Network (N3) who's goal is to provide a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum.Learn all about this cutting edge curriculum and the woman that put it all together to help students nationwide.