Recent JSG PhD graduate Dr. Ethan Conrad is a structural geologist and tectonic geomorphologist, who was advised by Drs. Claudio Faccenna, Danny Stockli, and Thorsten Becker. Hear how Ethan's interest in science was sparked by The Spiderwick Chronicles, how his research has taken him to Italy and the Dominican Republic, and how playing music, disc golf, and slacklining with friends shaped his PhD experience. Ethan is now a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (UCL), where he studies how the topography of Antarctica has changed beneath the ice over millions of years.