Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 8th,

2024 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. Happy North American Eclipse Day everyone and of course I'm recording this in advance so I have no idea if you are

experiencing the awe and wonder of the great North American eclipse or if sadly the clouds have overtaken.

But I'm hoping for the absolute best. I'm time traveling a bit, but hopefully I'm in Texas and I'm crying my eyes out at the beauty of it all.

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All right, so this week I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Judy Burwald.

So she is an ocean scientist.

She actually earned her PhD in Ocean Science from the University of Southern California.

She's also the author of a science textbook

and the editor as well.

She also wrote an incredible book called Spineless

about Jellyfish.

And she has a new book called Life on the Rocks, Building a Future for Coral Reefs, which was or is an LA Book Times finalist and a Nautilus Book Award winner.

She is also the co-founder and president of Telecoral, and we're going to talk a little bit more about that

sort of towards the end of the show.

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