Random Nature

I talk to Ed Baptist, PhD. We speak on Durham, NC, small scale farming, and hawks! I also discuss some challenges with grief. To that end consider this a content warning on profound sadness. 

In this episode, I provide highlights of my visit to Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut as well as my more recent visit to the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. I talk about viewing a Common Loon at Picnic Point! Said bird was viewed in company with the great birder Dexter Patterson and Dan Fallon! I also introduce Edward E. Baptist my next guest. His work focuses on the histo...

Madeleine gives us a glimpse of her interactions with Nature through recalling her time as a child loving horses, taking adventures as a college student, and reflecting on the gifts of her father from that she treasures. At the end of the episode, Madeleine's Great Pyrenees does a trick that causes her to speak to him.   If you want to learn more about The Artwork of the Congo and the complic...

Costa Rica, Kansas, RACCOONS!

 In this minisode I introduce the upcoming podcast guest, José Ignacio Carvajal Regidor, PhD. I also share two Random Nature moments of my very own! 

Christy gathers: Elizabeth Sobel, Phd Dorothy Kim, PhD John Handel, PhD Karin Dalziel, M.A., and artist Raquel Bryant, Phd Mary Shelly, attorney and law librarian Steven Nelson, attorney Hannieh Molana, PhD Learotha Williams,, PhD K.T. Ewing, PhD Caroline Propersi-Grossman, PhD Hannah Albert-Abrams PhD Dhanashree Thorat, Phd to talk the most random nature moment in their lives.

Episode 2 debuts today and we are in the studio with writer, artist, and university professor, Ravynn Stringfield ! Get into it. Learn about her time growing up in Wakefield, VA spending time with family, becoming a community celebrity as Miss Peanut Festival Queen, and her green thumb when it comes to sunflowers!

Random Nature checks in with writer and university professor Noreen Masud who shares how the outdoors and wildlife inform her day to day. From the city of Lahore and the  pines of northern Pakistan to the moors of Newcastle, Noreen Masud's approach to nature is unique and multifaceted.