Starre Julia Vartan

It was really exciting to write (and narrate) my first podcast with the wonderful multimedia team over at SciAm. I covered behavioral ecologist and biological anthropologist Wendy Erb’s fascinating work and her inquiries to determine how wildfire smoke impacts orangutan health. Erb’s wealth of recordings as a bioacoustician meant that podcast editor Jeff Delviscio was able to create what he called a true “audio journey” for the pod. I was so thrilled with how well it turned out! I can’t wait to do another one; as a podcast fan for many years now, to be on the creation side of the medium was just awesome.