Malcolm X Shabazz Aquatic Biogeochemistry Team. Karen partners with Andrew Steen (Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Tennessee), Patrick Murray, and Nick Ferrero, math teachers at Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, NJ, to introduce young people to environmental biogeochemistry research. Summer research has taken place at the Poconos Environmental Research Center, and the research has been presented at the American Geophysical Union General Meeting. You can read about the collaboration here.
TED Talk about volcanoes. Karen gave a TED talk about carbon sequestration in the deep subsurface biosphere of subduction zones in April 2019 at TED2019.
TED Talk about mud. Karen gave a TED talk about the marine sediment deep subsurface biosphere in October 2017 at TED@BCG.
Biology Meets Subduction short film. CoLab Productions and the Deep Carbon Observatory published a short film about the work in Costa Rica.
Short video for NowThisHer through Seeker Media about field work in Chile in March 2020.
Filmed short explanatory video for mSystems paper in 2018, about how most microbes on Earth are uncultured.
Audio from StoryCollider in October 2019 about Karen’s irrational fear of “getting scooped”back in 2008. She has since recovered.
Ohio State University Science Sunday talk for the public.
Carnegie Institute for Science Evening of Science talk for the public.
University of Tennessee Science Forum talk for the public.
NSF Dimensions project: Siberian Permafrost. Collaborator Tatiana Vishnivetskaya made two films (here and here) about her field work in Siberian permafrost.
Mic/Nite at the University of Tennessee. Karen gave a petcha kutcha style talk (20 seconds per slide, 20 slides) to people who had, thankfully, been drinking beer. Here it is.
15-Second Science. It’s what it sounds like. Literally 15 seconds to say something interesting about one’s research.
C-DEBI professional development webinar on how to get an academic job.
Selected Press
2020 Volcano TED talk featured in TED Radio Hour
2020 Interview with Jordana Cepelewicz for The Atlantic and Quanta Magazine article.
2020 Interview with Whitney Heins for UTK Alumnus Magazine article.
2020 TV interview with Ben Cathey at WLVT Knoxville about Arctic Research
2019 2nd radio interview with Jonathan McCrea, Newstalk’s Futureproof, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Interview with Corey Powell for NBC News article.
2019 Interview with Delia O’Hara for AAAS Member Spotlight article.
2019 Interview for The Disruptors podcast with Matt Ward
2019 New Scientist article
2019 2nd Radio interview UnDisciplined with Matthew LaPlante for Utah Public Radio
2019 Mini Geology radio interview with Daniel Minisini
2019 Scientific American article on 2018 mSystems paper
2019 Interview with Martin Rajec at Slovak Public Radio
2019 Podcast interview with Seth Shostak at SETI on Big Picture Science
2019 Podcast interview with David Kattenburg
2019 Radio interview with Ireland’s NewsTalk
2018 TV interview for Enlace Judio, Mexico
2018 Newsweek article
2018 The Guardian article
2018 New York Times article
2018 Nature Microbiology Research Highlights, “The majority is uncultured.” Vol. 16, p. 716
2018 Radio interview with TalkRadio with Paul Ross in London
2018 Radio interview with Alexander South at Radio Sputnik, Edinburgh, UK,
2018 Radio interview with NPR WUOT
2018 Radio interview with BBC “Science in Action”
2018 Live radio interview with BBC World Service Newsday
2018 Live TV interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2018 Live TV interview with Al Jazeera’s nightly news in London
2018 1st Radio interview UnDisciplined with Matthew LaPlante for Utah Public Radio
2018 1st Radio interview for Jonathan McCrea, Newstalk’s Futureproof, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Radio interview with Julie Rose for Top of the Mind, Utah Public Radio,
2017 Interview with New Scientist
2016 Interview for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016 Interview for Nova Next article
2012 Interview for Science News for Kids, AAAS