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Interested in building an instrument to fly to Mars? Listen in as Dr. Dave Blake - race car engine builder, biologist, geologist, and spacecraft instrument designer extraordinaire - describes his science journey.

Rather than following his dad's path as a commercial fisherman, John Pinto became a carrier pilot for the Navy, returning to Plymouth MA 25 years later as a lobsterman.

Woody Turner, the program scientist for biological diversity and manager for ecological forecasting programs at NASA, and one of the few people in the world who directly harness the power of space to solve a whale of a problem –...

How did Biogeoscience become a recognized field of study, with its own journal and sections at AGU? What obstacles did its organizers have to overcome in order to make it a viable field and a welcome presence at AGU? In...

Atem Da’Hajhock (28) and John Kuai (27) talk with Joan Hecht (57) about their experiences as one of the many young refugees from Sudan called the Lost Boys.

Christina Lim is an Experiment Support Scientist with the Cell Science Project and the Biospecimen Sharing Program at Paragon-Tech, who work with NASA Ames. She is also a passionate science communicator and has worked in public outreach and education. In...

[Recorded: Thursday, April 27, 2023] Yasir (22) and Evelyn (21) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yasir is an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia studying biology on a pre-med track. Evelyn is also an undergraduate...

We talked about changing childhood dream jobs and people who affected career choices.

We talked about her bio test

One Small Step partners Katie Pina (36) and Mario Navarro (52) share a conversation about growing up, their families, their children, and the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talk about their frustrations with US politics, their perspectives on religion, and their...

What NOLS means to me

Air Force Colonel Dander talks about successful teams; technology breakthroughs for rescue helicopters in Vietnam & so much more.

Colleagues Kasia Laskowski (34) and Deidra Heuring (43) talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers, the things that kept them going amid challenging times, and their hopes for the future.

82 year old man talks to his daughter about becoming an architect after WWII

Kathy Wentz talks with colleague Dr Sidney Schechet about his journey to become a Retina Specialist, finds out how COVID affected him, and learns the value of patience.

Roy Disney worked on a movie called Morning Light where they took kids who had never sailed before and trained them for months so they could sail in one of the toughest races in the world of sailing, the transpac....

Andrew Burdick and Dave West in their third Storycorps Connect interview. Dave explains the background of Odyssey of the Mind, an organization he has volunteered with for ~20 years. He then recounts some of his favorite anecdotes of moments of...

In the interview we talked about the ups and downs of cross country. We discussed how it made us better mentally and physically. Hope and I conversed about the trip the team goes on and how the team is like...

I (17) interview my uncle, Jon Paul Carew (45), a veterinarian and Floridian

Joel D. Lusk and colleagues Cynthia Abeyta and Maceo Martinet talk about their work as biologists and the influences in their own lives that led them to the work they are engaged in. Cynthia and Maceo talk about being Latinos...

Lusharon Wiley (70) and her fiancé Ernest Dawson (70) discuss Ernest's family, his time attending Pensacola High School during integration, being the first black football player on the team, his time at Tuskegee University and those who encouraged him along...

My grandfather, Robert Chase who is 87, talks about his experience with World War II and his time as a biologist. The interview was conducted in November of 2017 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

I interviewed Terence Burnett about his time serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war. We discussed When and why he enlisted and what made him choose his branch of service. I asked him about his bootcamp experience. He told...

Friends and colleagues, Faye Cooper (67) and Genevieve Goss (67), discuss their personal development and involvement in land conservation and easements.

Two former Hospice Gorge doctors sharing their experiences and things they learned working in Hospice and Palliative Care.