Boring Trees

About this episode

Ben interviews his brother Adam about using cellular structure in oaks to reveal climate history and discusses grad school experiences.

Ben interviews his brother Adam, also a grad student studying trees. Adam goes into how he's using cellular structure in oaks to reveal climate history. Along the way they talk grad school realities and other student job related stories. • why oaks can extend climate reconstructions farther back in time • sanding protocols, imaging, and AI for cell-level features • grad school workloads, TA work, and lab culture • work outside of grad school • sponsor shoutout to Tiger Sha...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Johnston, Scott Johnston

Guest: Adam

Topics covered

• climate history
• grad school
• cellular structure
• oak trees
• AI in research
• lab culture

Keywords

• climate reconstructions
• oak trees
• grad school
• cell-level features
• AI
• TA work
• lab culture

Sponsors

Tiger Sha

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