iLEAPS Early Careers Scientist Podcast

Story behind the paper E1: Professor Belinda Medlyn

During this podcast we discuss the paper: "Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance" Published in Global Change Biology, 2011. We talk to the lead author Belinda E. Medlyn. Follow this link to view the published article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02375.x

Early Career: #27 Simon Clark - Discussions on science communication

Today on the podcast we have a great opportunity to talk with Simon Clark, who is pursuing a career in Science Communication. Simon is communicating the findings from a broad range of topics within the Environmental Science, in video form on his successful YouTube channel, but also in his newest popular science book about the history of atmospheric research. In this episode, Simon is sharing his story from being interested in all aspects of nature as a child, through his days as a PhD student at the University of Oxford and until today where he works as a full-time science communicator. He also talks a little bit about what his thesis in Atmospheric physics was about and shares a wealth of information about the amazing things, but also some of the challenges of the work that he does. Finally, he gives valuable advice to anyone who would like to start a career in Science Communication. Check out his website to see and be up to date with everything Simon is doing: https://www.simonoxfphys.com/.

Early career: #32 Aino Korrensalo - Carbon cycling in boreal peatland ecosystems

In this episode we talk with Aino Korrensalo, a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Enivronmental and Biological sciences at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu campus [https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/aino.korrensalo/]. She is researching the carbon cycling in boreal peatland ecosystems. She talks about the interesting aspects of her work as well as the challenges of writing the research proposals. In the end she gives advice to PhD students who are unsure if they would like to continue the academic career that they should not stress about that decision because most paths in life can be walked in both directions.

Early career: #31 Antonio Randazzo - Gas emissions from soils, landfills, geothermal systems and volcanoes!

Today we chatted with Antonio Randazzo, a PhD student at the Fluid Geochemistry research group at the University of Florence. He studies gas emissions from soils around landfills, geothermal systems and volcanoes. In this episode talked about his passion for inorganic nature and about his academic career path that included many exchange periods around Europe. He shared some of the challenges in his PhD studies, but also the excitement to contribute to the scientific commnity. Finally, he admits that doing a PhD is not easy, but he does encourage potential new PhD students to join a group that is supportive, believes in them and encourages them to grow.

Early career: #30 Jing Tang - Discussions on ecosystem modelling

Jing Tang is an ecosysem modeller in the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science in Lund University in Sweden and in the Ecoystem-Atmosphere interactions research group at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She tells her story of doing the PhD studies in Lund after finishing her Master's degree in China, and continuing with a postdoctoral positoion in Copenhagen and Lund. She discussess the possibilities for learning and interesting scientific work in the field of ecosystem modelling, but also discusses a few of the challenges. She gives advice in the end to pay attention to not ignore some of the additional activities during scientific work, such as teaching and organizing courses and conferences, because they might be an important aspect in the selection for funding applications.