Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 16th,

2024 and I'm the host of the show Dr. Kara Santa Maria. And as always before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to

thank those of you who make TalkNurdy possible. Remember this show is and

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to give a shout out to this week's top patrons. They include Anu Baravaj, Daniel Lange, David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva,

Rika Maharaj, Brian Holden, David Compton, Gabriel F. Herrameo, Joe Wilkinson, Pasqualee-Jilati, and Ul Rica Hagman.

Thank you all so much.

This week, I had the incredible opportunity to chat with Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson.

She's a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and the co-founder of the nonprofit think tank Urban Ocean Lab as well as

co-founder of the Climate Initiative the All We Can Save Project. She is also the Rue Distinguished Scholar at Bowden College and she has a

brand new book it is called What if we get it right? Visions of climate futures? So without any

further ado here she is Dr Iana Elizabeth Johnson. Well Iana thank you so much for joining me today.

My pleasure, thanks for having me.

So we're going to be talking about your work, your scholarship, and also your new book,

what if we get it right, visions of climate futures?

But before we get into the book,

I always just want to spend some time with my guest

to learn more about who they are and what they do.

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