... And we're back! Welcome to Series 3 of the Field Trip Podcast, and this time we're trying something different -- we're bringing in our friends as Field Trip Correspondents. They'll be sharing their science reporting adventures from all over the globe.
… And we’re back! Welcome to Series 3 of the Field Trip Podcast. This time we’re trying something a little different  – we’re bringing in our friends as Field Trip Correspondents. They’ll be sharing their science reporting adventures from all over the globe.
As some of you know, Eric and Kara are instructors at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, which means we work with some really fantastic up-and-coming radio reporters who blow like dandelion seeds all over the world as soon as the final school bell rings in May. And as some others of you know, this summer Eric was simultaneously becoming a dad AND writing a book (more news about that in early 2013, but here’s a hint: It is awesome and it is about BRAINS.) With Eric’s sleep deprivation levels teetering into the danger zone, it seemed like the perfect time to pass the mic to some of our friends, who have been eager to share their own summertime field trips with you. Sort of like a “postcards from summer camp” thing, we figured, but without the bug spray and the macaroni art. And as it turned out, getting to work with a bigger team made for the most fun season so far!
So without further ado, we present the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after this summer’s massive wildfires to learn about how the aftermath of a single fire can change the ecology of a region indefinitely.
We’ll be back every Monday through early November with a new report from somewhere else on the planet. So stay tuned!
About this week’s special Field Trip Correspondent:
Megan Molteni is a multimedia journalist currently earning her Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. A radio junkie with a serious geek tooth for all things biological, she spends most of her free time wandering around the woods, climbing aboard fishing boats or hanging out in a laboratory, usually with microphone in hand.
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