Random Nature

In this podcast, I discuss my gardening approach, birdseed, yard birds, and American Kestrel Raids!

Bonus! Christy tells us where she is headed next in her academic career. And of course BIRDS! Birds mentioned: Pileated Woodpecker People mentioned: Ed Baptist PhD, Bill Block, PhD, soon to be PhD Megan Jeffreys .

I reflect on Flaco's passing.

Part activist, part administrator, and part academic,” Anna Sims Bartel earned her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She runs her own consulting firm and enjoys doing public humanities work as well helps drive the  development of community-engagement centers in higher ed. She is someone who became a fast friend when I moved to Ithaca in July 2023. Anna enjoys the things that...

Here I give a glimpse into what is coming up next. I talk about my confusing fall birding migration in a new region and FUNGI. My next guest will be Dr. Anna Bartel.

A meditation on grief and nature on a day of sorrow.

My Global Big Day! Tap in!

In this episode I share a precious moment with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak and my emotional farewell.

Meet one of my sweetest Feminist Geographer friends, Dr. Molana!

Ruddy Turnstones, Gulls, Brown Pelicans. Also grief.

In today's minisode we hear from three of my friends in this order:  Dr. Kate Malaia,  Dr. Claire Jimenez,  Dr. Matt Cohen. They share their most random/unusual/incredible nature moment. Check out their works! Recent article from Malaia: Transforming the Architecture of Food: From the Soviet to the Post-Soviet Apartmenthttps://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article/80/4/460/119541/Transforming-the-A...

  I talk with Dr. Randal Jelks, PhD and he gives us a glimpse of many travels he has had from Louisiana to the Dakotas and beyond. Letters to Martin, Dr. Jelks latest book! Get it here: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/letters-to-martin-products-9781641606035.php

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.