Dr. Neal Fox is Founder and Executive Director of Sierra STEM, which runs experiential learning, educational consulting, and professional development programs in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas. Dr. Fox holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University. Following a very successful 'traditional academic path,' Dr. Fox found joy in high school teaching and then morphed his love of the outdoors and his science training to start Sierra STEM.

Learn more about Neal:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nealpfox/

Sierra STEM: https://www.sierrastem.com/

I mention a little audiobook in the podcast. It's this one! "The National Parks" by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. It has a segment on Hetch Hetchy which then lead me to read/learn much more about the social and political history of the area.

Some acronyms we mention on here:

NSF = National Science Foundation

NRSA = A training grant

NIH = National Institutes of Health

ECOG = Electrocorticography

PI = Principal Investigator, usually director of a lab