Blast from the Raft (w/ Thomas Farrel)

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EpicEarth Podcast

Ashley Bosa & Bryan Rosenblatt

29 episodes

2 days ago

Welcome to the EpicEarth Podcast, a product of Boise State University students as part of STEM Outreach through the Geoscience Department. The concept of EpicEarth was developed by Ashley Bosa, Bryan Rosenblatt, and Scott Gauvain - all BSU graduate students who want to highlight the scientific progress taking place on this EpicEarth! Join us from the comfort of your chair as we travel all over the world. Dive into the world of glaciologists, hydrologists, biologists, paleontologists, physicists, seismologists, and a whole other host of scientists. Take a journey with us around this EpicEarth.

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Blast from the Raft (w/ Thomas Farrel)

EpicEarth Podcast

1 hour 21 minutes 26 seconds

2 years ago

Blast from the Raft (w/ Thomas Farrel)

Join us this week as we interview Thomas Farrell, a PhD Geoscience student at Boise State. If you ever need to know the time...as in, deep time...then Thomas is the person to ask! Thomas literally floats through life (not figuratively...he's seriously one of the hardest working students we know!), as his research takes him on rafting adventures through the multi-colored, and fossil-ridden Grand Canyon. The aim of the game? To constrain processes affecting the environment 494 million years ago (during Cambrian times)! And the craziest part!? He can do this by analyzing one of the tiniest components in rocks, a trace mineral known as zircon...honestly, it's mind-boggling how small the zircons are and the effort into getting a good-quality sample. When he's not literally conducting blasts from the past with his zealous zircon zapping, he's humbly humming over the passage of time. So, hop in the raft, and hold tight as we take you on this stratigraphically Epic journey!

-Recorded: Mar 2023