What Do Scientists Do?

What Do Scientists Do?

by SuperNOVA at Dalhousie University

Kids & Family Education for Kids Science

Season 2

What Do Ornithologists Do? with Julia Baak

What can bird poop tell us about the environment? Are arctic birds ingesting plastics?And what is it like to study birds in remote places? Today we learn from arctic bird expert Julia Baak (she/her), who's working to understand how our changing environment is impacting seabirds! Follow Julia on Twitter @juliaellenbaak for baby bird pics, research updates, and more. Visit https://www.birdscanada.org/bird-science/christmas-bird-count to get involved in your local Christmas bird count! Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! Note: We're taking a break for the holidays, which means that the next episode of What Do Scientists Do? will be released Wednesday January 11th, 2023 . Take care, and we'll see you then!

What Do South Pole Scientists Do? with Josh Veitch-Michaelis

What is it like to spend a winter at the South Pole? What are neutrinos, and why is the South Pole a good place to look for them? On this episode, Josh Veitch-Michaelis (he/him) tells us about his time as a winterover at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica! Want to learn more about daily life at the South Pole? Check out the IceCube Life @ Pole Blog at icecube.wisc.edu/pole/daily-life ! You can also follow IceCube on social media: Twitter - @uw_icecube Instagram - @icecube_neutrino Facebook - @IceCube Neutrino Observatory YouTube - @IceCubeNeutrino Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca

What Do Spacecraft Engineers Do? with Bill Parsons

What is it like to work as an engineer at the Canadian Space Agency? What kinds of things do each of Canada’s satellites do? On this episode, we learn from spacecraft engineer Bill Parsons (he/him), who teaches us about what it’s like to build and improve Canada’s satellites! Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca .

What Do Biomedical Engineers Do? Designing better tools! with Sierra Sparks

How can we use engineering to help diagnose alzheimer’s disease? How can we get better pictures of someone’s spine? And what is it like to enter a robot competition? On this episode, we learn from biomedical engineer Sierra Sparks (she/her), who teaches us all about the different ways engineering can be used to improve medicine! To learn more about what Sierra’s up to, follow her on Twitter @SierraNSparks . Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca

What Do Geologists Do? with Basel Al-Sukhon

How do we decide where to dig mines? What on Earth is serpentine? And what is Basel's favourite rock? On this rockin' episode, Basel Al-Sukhon (he/him) teaches us all about geology! Looking for more science fun? Follow us @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. If you have a question you'd like answered by an expert, you can also send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth in Atlantic Canada, visit SuperNOVA's website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca

What Do Physicists Do? with Emma Klemets

Where can you find the deepest flushing toilets in the world? How cold is absolute zero? On today's episode, we talk to Emma Klemets (she/her) all about low-energy particle physics! Looking for more science fun? Follow us @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. If you have a question you'd like answered by an expert, you can also send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth in Atlantic Canada, visit SuperNOVA's website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca

What Do Mycologists Do? with Mab Devlin Speelman

Which mushrooms are poisonous? How can we use fungi to clean up oil spills? On today's episode, we talked to Mab (she/they) to learn all about some funky fungi! Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. If you have a question you’d like answered by an expert, send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca .

What Do Astronauts Do? with Former U.S. Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger

What is it like to help out with a space walk? How are scientists taking care of spaceship Earth? And how do you join an all-astronaut band? That's right, we talked to former U.S. Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger (she/her), who told us all about astronaut training, living underwater as an aquanaut, and more! To learn more about all things space, follow Dottie on Twitter @astrodot . Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca .

What Do Battery Scientists Do? with Michael Metzger

How can we make better batteries for electric cars? What are the different kinds of batteries, and how do they work? On this episode, Michael Metzger (he/him) from Dalhousie’s Jeff Dahn Research Group teaches us all about the chemistry behind batteries! Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca ! To learn more about STEM programs for youth at Dalhousie University, visit SuperNova’s website at supernova.dal.ca or email supernova@superstaff.ca .

Season 1

What Do Particle Physicists Do? with Ian Ramirez

What is dark matter? How can we study things so tiny that we can’t even see them with a microscope? On this episode, Ian Ramirez (he/him) teaches us all about particle physics, featuring the world’s largest experiment to study the world’s smallest stuff! Questions? Looking for more science fun? Check out @scientistsdopod on Twitter or Instagram. Do you have a question you’d like answered by an expert? Send us an email or a voice recording at whatdoscientistsdo@superstaff.ca !

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