25: Environmental Scientist, Explorer, and Science Communicator Dr. Heidi Steltzer Discusses Finding your Path, Homeward Bound, Lichens, and How to Get Involved without a PhD

May 1, 2018

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Paths in Science, Preserve the environment, Homeward bound a South Pole Odyssey, and What her goals are for the future just to name a few examples.

More about her

Heidi Steltzer, Ph.D. Heidi is an environmental scientist, an explorer, and a science communicator, sharing her passion for science with others. She is an Associate Professor at Fort Lewis College, Colorado. She studies how environmental changes affect mountain watersheds and Arctic systems and their link to our well-being. Heidi’s research has been published in Nature and featured in the media, including the New York Times. Find her on social media and Medium.com @heidimountains.

Here is her website as well and the Reddit AMA she was apart of.

Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes( “*” next to ones I recommend):

  1. [ 02:15] When was the last time she was surprised, Soil Water content in Colorado, Winter Drought, and how her student’s proved one of her assumptions incorrect.
  2. [ 07:15 ] The two different ways to determine soil water amount.
  3. [ 08:35 ] What’s the fun science name for the better way to determine soil water content.
  4. [ 09:45 ] *What is her purpose, how finding your purpose helps you make choices, and how she loves traveling.
  5. [ 13:15 ] *Her thoughts on how being alone in nature can help her reflect and become more self aware to become more courageous and doing what she loves.
  6. [ 15:35 ] What she did after getting her PhD at 21/22 years old.
  7. [ 17:10 ] *She asks what I care about and tells me a story about science to get us more excited about the sciences. A story involving Lichen, Tundra fires, The Lichens of Alaska.
  8. [ 22:00 ] What we can do to impacting climate change.
  9. [ 26:48 ] Making a lichen garden and how great /s Heidi is at growing things.
  10. [ 28:00 ] How things that taste good, in her opinion, tend to end up being good for us with an example of her and her allergies.
  11. [ 29:30 ] Reddit AMA, Homeward bound, and large marine sanctuaries
  12. [ 32:20 ] The world as a small snow globe, which we can influence.
  13. [ 34:00 ] *What she is currently working on, excited about, and the biggest experiment she has run yet.
  14. [ 36:50 ] The American Geophysical Union and her new role with them as a Voice for Science.
  15. [ 38:22 ] What she was doing when I was born.
  16. [ 38:50 ] *How you can get involved in research and conservation with/without a PhD, and how she is working on creating animations of the research as it is being conducted.
  17. [ 42:15 ] *How time lapse cameras pointed at plants can show how our plants dance very slowly throughout are day.
  18. [ 43:55 ] How she loves to take notes, how she got into science, and how she broke out of the box she built for herself.
  19. [ 47:17 ] *Where does she go to get the hopeful news about the world over the doom and gloom of the traditional news cycle.
  20. [ 49:38 ] *Key scientists she recommends we check out.
  21. [ 50:00 ] Her full name and how it sort of hinted at her being a mountain expert her entire life.
  22. [ 51:23 ] Recommended books and how she doesn’t require textbooks in her classes.
  23. [ 53:55 ] *Female Einstein type people and books.
  24. [ 55:14 ]  How scientists care and they’re people too.

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