"Getting to Know Traditional Lightning and the People Who Love It." an interview with Sonja Behnke

Description

The only interviewee to describe her chosen field as a “hoot,” Sonja Behnke, Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been actively involved in atmospheric electricity research since 2008. Before that, she was a math instructor as an AmeriCorps volunteer. As a relatively newer field, “traditional lightning” is, like many scientific fields, fairly male-centric. But, on a project researching volcanic activity at Sakurajima Volcano in Japan, Sonja happily found herself part of a field team that was 50/50 gender-wise, which leads into a discussion about how to assemble a great team. (Recorded 11 December 2018)

Participants

• Sonja Behnke
  
• Greg Roth
  
• AGU Narratives
  

Interview By

• AGU Narratives