Épisodes

  • Ep. 62: What's in a (Lake) Name?
    Oct 3 2025
    Today we’re exploring something quite simple - lake names. Anyone who has spent much time on the water will have recognized there are a lot of ‘Clear Lakes’ out there, so we decided to do take a look at some common and unhelpful naming tropes that have been used to catalog many waterways (along with some less common).
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    36 min
  • Ep. 61: Wisdom of the Ancients
    May 30 2025
    In between arcs, we got a little self-reflective and decided to make a list of things that would have been useful to be aware of at the start of respective academic journeys.
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    50 min
  • Ep. 60: The Anthropocene Remains Undefined
    Mar 5 2025
    ‘Odd Couplets’ concludes by revisiting a previously discussed topic with some new information. The International Union on Geological Sciences' Submission on Quaternary Stratigraphy has decided to NOT establish a new epoch, and the ‘Anthropocene’ remains undefined. This decision intersects paleolimnology, philosophy, policy and a lot of other things.
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    45 min
  • Ep. 59: Paleonucularology
    Nov 6 2024
    The next ‘Odd Couplet’ focuses on the intersection of lake sediments and radioactivity. Radioisotopes in lake sediments are used extensively to establish chronologies, but are there other applications that examine these isotopes directly?
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    41 min
  • Ep. 58: PalA.I.eolimnology
    Aug 9 2024
    We continue our examination of the linkage of some less explored "Odd Couplets" associated with paleolimnology with one that is constantly in the news...AI!
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    52 min
  • Ep. 57: Paleotempestology
    May 29 2024
    Our second ‘Odd Couplet’ looks arc continues with an examination of the records storms can leave behind in lake sediments.
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    50 min
  • Ep. 56: Paleopaleoarchaeology
    Mar 11 2024
    We begin a new arc on unconventional applications/connections/linkages in paleolimnology, called "Odd Couplets." In the first episode we explore the connections between paleolimnology and archaeology.
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    41 min
  • Ep. 55: Contenuous Funding
    Jan 28 2024
    The ‘Money, Money, Money’ arc wraps up with a look at the research funding invaluable to paleolimnology, but not funded by the university-industrial complex. Or is it?
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    49 min