Meeting Link

Thank you card HERE

Submit your question for this week's presenter HERE

January Speaker - Ms. Lauren Anderson

Ms. Anderson is a former prima ballerina from Houston ballet; she is now in charge of education and community outreach programs.

11/5/21 Nicole Martinez

Ms. Martinez is a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon in entomology. She has researched how problems such as invasive species, natural disasters, and human actions can affect the ways plants and insects live and grow.

Please review the fact pages HERE

and watch the BrainPOP movie on pollinators/ BrainPOP Jr on insects

10/15/21 Samantha Bussan

Ms. Bussan is a PhD candidate at Washington State University. Her work focuses on providing habitat and space for wildlife in human controlled lands.

10/1/21 Dr. Laurence Dumouchel

Dr. Dumouchel is a paleontologist at George Washington University. She specializes in paleoecology, human evolution, faunal analysis, Eastern Africa, and taphonomy. She is currently researching and reconstructing environmental conditions in which our ancestors evolved.

Watch these videos for background:

https://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/humanevolution/ (access BrainPOP through Clever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPggkvB9_dc&t=842s

9/24/21 Said Alonzo

Mr. Alonzo is a mechanical engineer with a degree from Texas A&M. He currently works as an I & C (instrumentation and control) engineer for ExxonMobil.

9/10/21 Lily Dove

Ms. Dove is at Caltech: Division of Geological and Planetary Science specializing in Environmental Science and Engineering

9/3/2021 Robert E. Isdell

Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Coastal Resources Management of Virginia Institute of Marine Science

watch these for background:

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6/4/21 Lauren Rudd SPECIAL TIME 7:50 AM

This week we will meet Lauren Rudd, a zoologist/ researcher from Oxford University, specializing in lion behavior & conservation

WATCH TO PREPARE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkEVX23BdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqpNosHHlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21d5fiKB04I&t=68s

5/28/21 No presenter due to Memorial Day

5/21/21

This week we will meet Head Instructor Durkin, a multi-degree black belt in various martial arts. She will give us a brief overview of some of the disciplines she has studied and now teaches.

5/7 & 5/14 - we will not have guest speakers due to STAAR testing considerations

4/30/2021

This week we will meet Kayce Bell, a specialist in mammals. You can learn more about her work on her website HERE or about her job at the Natural History Museum HERE

4/9/2021

This week we will meet Nicholas Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate for Biochemistry & Biophysics and researcher specializing in cancer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

3/26/2021 - No Guest Speaker

3/12/2021

This week we will meet Dr. Avery Scherer, a marine biologist/ecologist at Cramer Fish Services. She will be talking to us about how she studies the way marine predators (crabs) change the behavior and even the bodies of their prey (oysters). Read more about her here: https://www.fishsciences.net/avery-scherer/

3/5/2021

We will be speaking with Dr. Sofía Pacheco-Forés. She is an archaeologist specializing in the study of migration in ancient Mexico using bone and tooth chemistry and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamline University as well as a Research Affiliate at the Center for Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University

2/26/2021

This week we will meet Dr. Lydia Baker, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State studying a bacterium that lives on coral and before that she was at Cornell working on the bacteria that light the lure of deep-sea anglerfish.

2/19/2021 - No Guest Speaker due to weather disruptions

2/12/2021 - No Guest Speaker due to Marathon Kids event

2/5/2021

In this week's Meet a Musician session we will meet saxophonist Nick Bissen from DACAMERA. He will tell us about the training and work life of a professional musician and also about the saxophone.

1/22/2021

This week we will meet with Abigail Gomez Morales, a nurse-researcher at Arizona State University who specializes in work with patients with Alzheimer's disease and their care-givers.

1/15/2021

This week's Skype A Scientist guest is Assistant Professor Rachel Humphrey, a meteorologist from St. Cloud State University. She specializes in tornado research.

12/4/2020

This week's Meet a Musician guest is Nicky Sohn, one of DACAMERA's Young Artist composers. We we learn what it takes to become a composers and how they work.

11/20/2020

This week it's Meet a Musician! We will meet Ms. Ally Smither, a soprano with Da Camera. She will tell us about her career and what is involved in being a vocal artist.

11/13/2020

We will be meeting Ms. Hailey Shanovich, a researcher in Natural Resource Managements specializing in entomology concerns at the University of Minnesota.

11/6/2020

We will be meeting Ms. Berenice Romero from the University of Saskatchewan. She researches the way insects can causes diseases in plants.

10/23/2020

This week's scientist is Mr. David Ledesma, a paleontologist from the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in amphibian and reptile fossils.

10/16/2020

This week's scientist is Ms. Syriah Stevens, a sea turtle specialist based in Florida. She has worked in several locations around the state protecting, rescuing, and rehabilitating sea turtles. She also works to educate the public about these extraordinary animals.

10/10/2020

This week we will meet Ms. Mayleen Cabral Ramirez from Oxford University. She studies disasters - hurricanes, drought, earthquakes, and floods to find ways humans can adjust their behavior to keep these events from doing so much harm.

10/2/2020

This week our scientist is Irene Salinas Akhmadeeva, an environmental Scientist from Mexico who is studying Marine Sciences in Saudi Arabia. Her work focuses on coral restoration, fish movement, fishery studies and coral reef ecology.

9/18/2020

We met Ms. Jolene Saldivar from the University of California at Riverside. She is an ecologist that studies the way butterflies interact with invasive plant species. In this meeting, Ms. Saldivar told us all about becoming a scientist.

9/25/2020

In our follow-up meeting with Ms. Saldivar we learned about her research and the work she does with butterflies.