Women In Environmental Science & Engineering
by Saranya Anantapantula
Currently: 13K listeners! 87.3% women+! 12.7% male supporters! 113 countries! Let's inspire our communities and educate them on the diverse environmental issues leaders in environmental engineering/science are doing! WIESE is a space for Women+ In STEM to share the issues they face in the industry, the solutions they make, the roadblocks they push through, and what they learning to teach society to keep the environment clean! Enjoy!
Episodes
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Episode #41: Dr. Adriana Bankston talks about transitioning to scientific policy, the power of workshops, and success in implementing a law
Adriana Bankston is a Senior Fellow in Civic Science & Public Policy with Sigma Xi, where she leads a project that examines science policy engagement at the state level and determines the skills, knowledge, and resources required by scientists to successfully influence public policy. Prior to…
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Episode #40: Danielle Becker-Polinski talks about coral reefs, innovative research (epigentics!), and the multifacetedness of marine biology
Danielle Becker-Polinski is currently a Ph.D. student in Dr. Hollie M. Putnam's Eco-Physiology and Environmental Epigenetics of Marine Invertebrates Lab at the University of Rhode Island. Danielle is broadly interested in the ecophysiology within coral reef ecosystems and how global climate…
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Episode #39: Dr. Lydia Jahl talks about harmful chemicals, public policy, and advocating for sustainable development
Dr. Lydia Jahl is a science and policy associate at the Green Science Policy Institute. There, she collaborates with other scientists, businesses, and policymakers to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in everyday products. Dr. Jahl is a chemist by training, receiving a BS in Chemistry from…
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Episode #37: Dr. Virginia Nevárez-Moorillón
Dr. Nevárez-Moorillón has been a full-time professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico, for the last 37 years. She graduated as a bacteriological chemist from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. She completed her Ph.D. in Biology from the…
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Episode #36: Sandy Castellano talks about scientific outreach, geochemistry analysis, and the future
Sandy Castellano has a B.S. Earth Sciences with a Concentration in Environmental Science (graduated 2018) and an M.S. Sustainability Science (anticipated graduation Dec 2022). Currently, Castellano is a graduate student at Montclair State University and working as a teaching assistant leading two...
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Episode #35: Dr. Maddie Smith talks about sea ice loss, climate change, and using technology
Dr. Maddie Smith is an Assistant Scientist in the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Motivated by the loss of sea ice in a rapidly changing climate, her research uses observations and modeling approaches to understand how sea ice interacts with...
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Episode #34: Dr. Francesca De Domenico talks about sustainable transportation, hydrogen powered planes, and green infrastructure
Dr. Francesca De Domenico is an Assistant Professor in Novel Aircraft Propulsion at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft. She has a passion for flames and sustainability and her research goal is to disruptively change the way in which we power aircrafts, to make them greener and more...
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Episode #33: Phebe Bonilla talks about designing water treatment plants, climate change, and capturing carbon dioxide
Phebe Bonilla is a Mexican environmental engineer. She did her undergrad in Puebla, her home city, where she worked for CAISEH, a consultancy company dedicated to doing environmental impact assessments. After finishing her degree, Phebe worked at MAV Integral Engineering and helped design...
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Episode #32: Constance Schéré talks about marine protected areas, policy regarding our oceans, and citizen science
Constance Schéré is a PhD candidate at King's College London in the Department of Geography. Her research focusses on the effectiveness of Irish Sea marine protected areas as a sustainable biological conservation tool. Constance has a MSc in Biodiversity, Territory, and Environment (BIOTERRE)…
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Episode #31: Dr. Kang Lan Tee talks about bioplastics, biochemical engineering, and entrepreneurship
Dr. Kang Lan Tee is recognized for her work in directed evolution, protein engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and sustainable biomanufacturing. Her contributions to the field include new molecular methods, novel promoters, improved enzymes and enhanced microbial strains for sustainable...
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Episode #30: Katrin Steinthorsdottir talks about fixing carbon, geology, and climate change
Katrin Steinthorsdottir (she/her) is a geologist who is doing her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC) alongside working for Carbfix. Her work focuses on CO2 storage via mineralization in subsurface ultramafic rocks. She completed her MSc also at UBC on serpentinization and...
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Episode #17: Luisa Diele-Viegas talks about reptiles, their importance in the ecosystem, and human-biodiversity interactions
Luisa Diele-Viegas is currently a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil and the vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Ecological Sciences and Conservation. Her research interests involve assessing the impact of human actions on biodiversity, focusing on climate...
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Episode #29: Dr. Lori Hoepner talks about environmental polluters, health, and socioeconomic factors
Dr. Lori Hoepner received her DrPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2015), her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from Tulane University School of Public Health (1995), and her BA in Biology from Barnard College (1994). With over 50...
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Episode #28: Dr. Maribet Gamboa talks about aquatic organisms, humans, and her typical research process
Dr. Maribet Gamboa is interested in biodiversity assessments by studying the evolution and function of genes of aquatic organisms. Gamboa's main goal is to find clues to adaptation and resilience to climatic change and human disturbance. Gamboa graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar in…
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Episode #27: Dr. Ashlynn Stillwell talks about energy systems, policy, and the extent of engineering
Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell is an Associate Professor and the Elaine F. and William J. Hall Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on creating sustainable water and energy systems in a policy-relevant...
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Episode #26: Dr. Natalie Hull talks about clean water, novel methods of water treatment, and microbes
Dr. Natalie Hull studies water microbiology at fundamental and system scales. Her academic background is in civil engineering (University of Kentucky, University of Colorado Boulder) and environmental engineering (University of Colorado Boulder), with post-graduate professional molecular biology...
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Episode #25: Kaitlin Urso talks about working with small businesses, environmental policy, and being a leader
Kaitlin Urso is an environmental consultant with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that specializes in helping small businesses, specifically breweries and cannabis businesses, reduce their environmental impacts. Kaitlin's work to advance environmental sustainability in...
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Episode #24: Dr. Onita Basu talks about water treatment, clean water, and the research process
Onita D. Basu, PhD., P.Eng. is a Professor (Civil/Environmental Eng) and Associate Dean (Faculty of Graduate Studies) at Carleton University. Dr. Basu obtained her bachelors’ (Chemical Engineering (honours)) and masters’ degree (Civil/Environmental Engineering) at the University of British...
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Episode #23: Dr. Laura Guertin talks about education, earth science, and quilting
Laura Guertin holds a Ph.D. in Marine Geology & Geophysics from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and has served as an Earth Science faculty member at Penn State Brandywine since 2001. She has received funding from the EPA and has been a PI/co-PI on…
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Episode #22: Dr. Eleftheria Kontou talks about transportation, electric vehicles, and improving infrastructure
Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on sustainable and electrified transportation systems planning and management. Dr. Kontou’s research group develops quantitative...
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Episode #21: Dr. Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi talks about ecohydrology, wetlands, and climate change
Dr. Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi is an ecohydrologist interested in understanding water-carbon relations within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. She uses an array of methods, from satellite data to process-based modeling, from stable isotopes lab experiments to field measurements. Dr. Gerlein-Safdi...
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Episode #20: Dr. Bethany Laursen talks about environmental philosophy, being interdisciplinary, and her research
Bethany Laursen, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., is an integration and implementation studies (I2S) specialist with Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC, where she empowers knowledge professionals to make sense of sustainability issues by using the right tool at the right time. Her research reveals how these…
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Episode #19: Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata talks about community involvement, action-oriented research, and art
Maitreyi Koduganti works as a researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India. Koduganti is also a part of the Advisory Board of the Water Youth Network. Koduganti has earned a second Master’s degree in Water Management and Governance from UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education,...
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Episode #18: Dr. Gabrielle Boisrame talks wildfires, mountain watersheds, and modeling
The majority of Dr. Gabrielle Boisrame’s research focuses on the interactions between wildfire, land cover, and water in mountain regions of the Western USA. Since 2013 she has been using a combination of fieldwork, remote sensing, and hydrological modeling to explore how managing natural…
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Episode #16: Dr. Clarice Demarchi Aiello talks about quantum engineering, biology, and uses of quantum science for the environment
Clarice D. Aiello is a Brazilian quantum engineer, leader of UCLA’s Quantum Biology Tech Lab (QuBiT) and interested in how quantum physics informs biology at the nanoscale. She holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École Polytechnique (France), a Physics MPhil from the University of Cambridge (UK)...
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Episode #15: Dr. Kathy Licht talks about ice, working in polar regions, and climate change
Dr. Kathy Licht's research focuses on understanding the history of the Antarctic ice sheet so her research group can better determine what causes it to advance and retreat and how that fits in with the global climate system. Licht holds several active grants through the National Science…
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Episode #14: Dr. Antonella Panebianco talks about guanacos, drones, and conservation
Dr. Antonella Panebianco is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina. Panebianco completed her Ph.D. at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2019. Panebianco is interested in studying the modulation of physiological and…
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Episode #13: Dr. Rachel Shaffer talks about toxicology, environmental health, and potential solutions
Dr. Rachel Shaffer graduated from Yale University with a BA in Environmental Studies (with a concentration in Environmental Health). After college, Shaffer worked in the Health Program at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in Washington, DC. Shaffer contributed to projects related to the reform...
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Episode #12: Dr. Diana Vieira talks about wildfire, soil erosion, and the importance of technology in environmental engineering
Diana Vieira is an Environmental Engineer with a special focus on soil erosion risk. She dedicated most of her time to monitoring burned areas and understanding the underlying key processes in fire-affected soils and landscapes to better adapt models to burned conditions. During her research…
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Episode #11: Dr. Eri Saikawa talks about Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution, and Education to Everyone
Dr. Eri Saikawa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. She is the Director of both Graduate Studies and the Emory Climate Talks Program in the department. She is jointly appointed in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and is also…
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Episode #10: Dr. Heidi Steltzer talks about Mountain Science, Exploring, and being a Listener
The chat I had with Dr. Heidi Stelzer was very fascinating as she took me into her hilarious personal experiences and deep into the field of mountain sciences. Dr. Heidi Steltzer is a mountain scientist, explorer, and science storyteller. She has spent 25 years conducting field studies in remote...
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Interview with Dr. Devyani Singh #9
Dr. Devyani Singh is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working on various projects under the umbrella of the Energy and Climate policy. Her research has included energy access & transitions in the Global South, air-quality modeling, evaluating climate impacts of national policies, natural resource…
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Interview with Ms. Christine Shields #8
Christine Shields is an Associate Scientist in the Climate Change Research Section at NCAR with expertise in simulating Earth’s past, present, and future climate with the Community Earth System Model. Christine’s focus is toward understanding Earth’s hydrological cycle in the context of climate...
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Interview with Dr. Edith Newton Wilson #7
Edith Newton Wilson, Ph.D., works to engage emerging professionals in energy solutions for a changing world. With degrees from Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins, Edith is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Society. Her global career began with Amoco, BP, and Phillips, and...
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Interview with Jessica Roberts #6
Jessica Roberts does work on reintroduction science. She is a graduate student from George Mason University in Virginia. Her research is focused on whether behavioral training in captivity can prepare parrots for survival in the wild. She researched studying the anti-predator behavior of…
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Interview with Dr. Emily Lescak #5
Dr. Emily Lescak is a researcher who focuses on fish evolution and genetics. She is passionate about communicating science to the public and lowering barriers to participation in research science. Our conversation was extremely interesting! I learned about the threespine stickleback fish. To hear...
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Interview with Dr. Rachel Kirpes #4
Dr. Rachel Kirpes is a researcher studying atmospheric chemistry and aerosols in the Arctic to learn about how the Earth is warming up quickly. Using this information, she communicates this to the public! Join me on this incredible discussion, as we talk about Rachel's adventures in the Arctic…
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Interview with Ms. Allison Crimmins #3
Mrs. Allison Crimmins is a researcher studying the influences of climate change on human health and what happens through illnesses as the temperature increases. She works on how the healthcare system, after an extreme weather event, helps us realize the different impacts to try to change our…
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Interview with Dr. Casey Bartrem #1
Dr. Casey Bartrem is Executive Director and Senior Environmental Scientist at TerraGraphics International Foundation (TIFO), an international organization that assists mining and recycling communities to address environmental pollution. Her work and research focus on environmental health,...
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Interview with Dr. Gretchen Goldman #2
Dr. Goldman is a research director at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her research focuses on air pollution and its impacts on Earth. One of her research papers shows the correlation between urban air pollution and emergency department visits, using epidemiological studies of acute human…
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About this show
Currently: 13K listeners! 87.3% women+! 12.7% male supporters! 113 countries! Let's inspire our communities and educate them on the diverse environmental issues leaders in environmental engineering/science are doing! WIESE is a space for Women+ In STEM to share the issues they face in the industry, the solutions they make, the roadblocks they push through, and what they learning to teach society to keep the environment clean! Enjoy!
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