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Jennifer Brandon

“No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator

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Posted: June 28, 2019

Jennifer Brandon recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 24, 2019. Brandon has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently completed an eighteen-month stint as the Price Postdoctoral Fellow in science communication and outreach at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.

She discusses her career as a scientist studying marine debris and as a scientific communicator.

Video Posted: June 28, 2019 | Running time: 6:00

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