Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine
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Show Notes
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catalyzed change throughout history.
Next, Dan Shugar, associate professor of geoscience and director of the environmental science program at the University of Calgary, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about a deadly rock and ice avalanche in northern India this year and why closely monitoring steep mountain slopes is so important for averting future catastrophes.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
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[Image: Irfan Rashid, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; Joel Goldberg; Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
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