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Know of any Albuquerque or Santa Fe Ologists? (Patreon)

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2023-05-16 21:11:43
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...or West Virginia? 

WHY DAD. 

Okay, so I have been to 48 states, mostly for work. On the back of my legendary binder is a map and I have West Virginia and New Mexico left. I maaay be able to visit NM before the end of May and have had my eye on a skunk expert there for FOUR YEARS -- our last attempt to meet up was foiled by the pandemic. I'm hoping he gets back to me and I can finally get that one recorded. 

But if anyone has New Mexico experts they would love to hear on Ologies, let me know in the comments! Same goes for West Virginia!

I understand Albuquerque has a very quirky rattlesnake museum curated by a passionate fan of snakes, but would love to know if you have any one else to suggest!

Ready with my pink pencil,

VonDadward

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Anna Thompson

Sydnee McElroy hosts the podcast Sawbones and lives in Huntington. I'm not sure what Ologies she fits (medical doctor, works mostly at a homeless shelter, lovely person) but she could be fun! Also the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is in Green Bank, WV. They do a ton of amazing stuff and most likely have a few folks on staff who'd be game. I spent a week there in the summer of 2011 for "nerd camp" and loved it!

Anna Doo

The area is RICH in American Indian history…maybe go that route. Also a hot springs in SF - Ten Thousand Waves; maybe a hot springs ologist? And biscochitos!!! Cookie-ologist?!

Chris Brewer

Maybe Spiceology. New Mexico is a big exporter of chili peppers.

Jessie Rack

I have an amazing friend in Santa Fe who studies native bees! Her name is Olivia Messinger Carril. She, in fact, co-wrote the book "The Bees in Your Backyard!" She's really fun and a great science communicator and also is a badass scientist doing work for the Forest Service and BLM. I believe she's currently writing the "bees of the western US" book! (I also know the rattlesnake museum guy and he is great)

Doxx

Uh I know this woman. Dr. Catherine Montoya. She has an Ed.D and specialises in helping native students get an education at a graduate level. I’m not sure what ology that would be. If she agrees please tell I’m sorry falling asleep on her in our zoom meeting.

Losifer

GAAAAAAHHHH!!! I have nothing to offer, but between ABQ and Santa Fe I'm hoping that you'll do some sort of meet and greet!

Felix Lasselle

Hope you find someone! But please do all the provinces next. There are only 10!

Losifer

Wait, have you done anything on strokes? Or HIV? I do have some connections. If you want to do something on mountain bike advocacy or positive masculinity, I could help...

Erin Maurelli

ABQ is home to Tamarind Institute; the leading authority on Lithography. Valperi Remling is their Master Printer. It’s not exactly an “ology,” but it’s really darn cool.

Ted Vician

“Fungus that makes cicadas butts fall off” is already a winner.

Jessica Schlarbaum

I’m so excited about this!! I live in NM and have a few recommendations (I’m in the wildlife field so many are wildlife-related). One is Zoe Rossman who studies urban coyotes in Albuquerque (@zoecology on IG). There is also a big push lately for wildlife-highway crossings in NM so many researchers are focusing on that and vehicular collisions. Could be interesting. Can definitely find a contact if interested. I would hesitate to recommend the rattlesnake museum. As someone in animal husbandry, the care of the snakes there is a bit questionable and the owner, Bob, is an…. Interesting fellow. Definitely other rattlesnake Ologists out there that could speak to rattlesnakes a bit more like Tom Wyant in SFe area. Can get you his contact info if interested. Someone above mentioned indigenous history- so many pueblos surrounding Santa Fe and Albuquerque and there is SO MUCH information there. You could reach out to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in ABQ or the Poeh Museum and Cultural Center in SFe. The Los Alamos National Lab is here, one of the largest labs in the country responsible for the nuclear bombs (not necessarily a cheery topic to talk about, but the history and creation of LANL and the Manhattan Project are interesting). Someone else mentioned the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History and that is a fantastic place for an Ologist to talk about nuclear history in NM. Oh boy, sorry for this giant list. I am just so excited that you’re coming to NM!

JENN 'Benthopelagic squirrel' ALVAREZ

No, but I did accidentally leave my purse on a mountain in N.M. when I was 13, so if anyone has seen it. It's a little white purse with a light up mirror inside. Thanks!😂

Doug Koekkoek

Emily Calendrelli is a West Virginia native. She would be awesome.

Julia Talbot

You should talk to my oldest friend and awesome UMN professor Rebecca Schreiber who studies how immigration/seeking asylum influences and translates into art. More fancily: the connections between asylum-seekers’ experiences—in particular, of displacement, mobility, and immobilization—and their aesthetic practices. Art-immigrationology.... and make her take you out for pizza at the good pizza place.

Alie Ward

He does listen to the show! He and his family are truly some of the best people in the world.

Curiosoid

Anyone at the Santa Fe Institute!

Alie Ward

Coincidentally, there is a company called Spiceology and Shannon Feltus works with them a lot! But perhaps a capcasin-specific episodes would be fun, too....

Alie Ward

Thanks for this! Funny enough, I was JUST talking this morning about booking Krystal Hickman of BeeSip for this topic! I'll look into them both!

Alie Ward

Aaahahah! I will pass that along.

Alie Ward

Everyone would get to shade in a little bit of my NM square ...

Erin Maurelli

…also formerly of Los Angeles, CA

Alie Ward

I would love that! I've been to Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. 7 to go!

Alie Ward

Hold onto your butts for real folks

Alie Ward

I haven't done either of the former, nor the latter!

Jessie Rack

Sweet! Olivia's the best. She also teaches middle school science in her "free time" somehow haha

Alie Ward

There must be some -ology associated.... Hmmm. And don't think I haven't fantasized about a Graphies spin-off, Erin.

Alie Ward

How DARE you apologize for giving me such useful info. Take it back, Jessica.

Sarah Khanlian

The Frontier Restaurant in Albuquerque is an institution and cultural melting pot; I don’t think anyone has done research on it but they should 🤣!!

30.004861 cm of fun!

Every day I learn things that bring me so much joy. I love this.

Caroline Wight

For WVa - Anyone from the podcast Inside Appalachia from West Virginia public radio! They’re amazing

Rachel Dripps Flint

My friend, Ria Mukerji (@ria_mukerji on twitter) is a Geography PhD student at UNM, her ology is Political Ecology. It's so interesting and she's incredibly knowledgeable! Geography with Ria is a fun series where she gives us little tidbits of what she's studying in an understandable way.

Jenny Lowe Rhodes

Dr Sydney from Sawbones podcast is in West VA. That would be an Amazing meetup!!

Ted Vician

There’s also a museum and national park dedicated to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. And a lot of smart people work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The museum there might be able to help you find someone: https://www.lanl.gov/museum/

Ted Vician

That means we need a WeirdAlogy episode, I’m pretty sure.

Casey H Butler

My brother is the president of the NM Herpetological society and worked at the rattlesnake museum for years in high school/college. He's certainly a person with a life long passion for the natural world. Anyway, you can find him @desertmax on Instagram.

Jacki Whisenant

Could you interview Dr McElroy from Sawbones? Talk about a crazy crossover!

Amy M

G.B. Cornucopia is a Park Ranger at Chaco Canyon National Park in NM. He is an amazing speaker and can speak on archeoastonomy and archeology at Chaco. Also I am an astronomer that works at the VLA in NM, one the world's best radio telescopes . I think it would be interesting to get someone to talk about radio interferometry. Although I am drawing a blank on who to recommend. Lastly there are several pulsar astronomers at UWV. I would recommend Maura McLaughlin or Duncan Lorimer.

JENN 'Benthopelagic squirrel' ALVAREZ

No clue. Could have been Arizona.😂 And I was 11 But it was definitely 1984. My cousin's G'ma stepped over a rattlesnake and didn't realize it until we told her.

Jessie Rack

Ooh here's a weird (ish) one: Grant Beauprez, with NM Game and Fish, works on prairie chickens!

Aimee Martin

not sure how proper of an ologist you want, but i would call @andimariere on tiktok a comedian/Appalachian culture-ologist?

Dave Brewer

Pedro Casas. He’s the manager of a greenhouse at Santa Fe Community College. He’s doing research on hydroponics and aquaponics and how they can be contribute to a more sustainable environment

Colin Maydahl

Not an Oligist but the most incredible art installation is "The Lightning Field (1977)", by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished stainless-steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer. The poles—two inches in diameter and averaging 20 feet, 7½ inches in height—are spaced 220 feet apart and have solid, pointed tips that define a horizontal plane. " You can go and stay during the monsoons and get right up next to the lightning.

Sage Scarberry

I know this isn’t helpful exactly but I am DYING to hear an Appalachia-ology episode (re: West Virginia)

Sage Scarberry

I think I remember Alie saying in an episode that you don’t need a formal degree to be considered an expert! I’m with you on Appalachian culture. So interesting.

Paul Smith

Unsure which ology (may have to get stretchy with some definitions) but the Santa Fe Opera is a real gem and there are some true experts working in both the backstage and artist fields there!

Adam Weaver

If you come to WV please please please speak with Dr. Thomas Pauley. He was the head of Marshall's herpetology department for years and is the authority on all things scaly in our state. He's currently writing a second edition of his book and he would have some wonderful incites! I have his email and can put you in touch with him. He usually speaks at our annual herpetology conference that our group, the West Virginia Herpetological Society, puts on.

Paul Smith

I can get you contact information for their Director of Production

Erin Snook

I live in West Virginia and have worked with some really cool ologists here! Cheryl Morrison is a geneticist who works with corals and vulnerable species https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/cheryl-l-morrison. Dave Smith is a research statistician who works on structured decision making for endangered species management and has worked with horseshoe crabs and sage grouse https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-r-smith. Than Hitt is a freshwater fish ecologist https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/nathaniel-hitt. Look forward to hearing who you talk with in WV!!

Sage Scarberry

Seconded the interest in heart attack/strokes and STDs! I haven’t committed to learning anything since HS and I know (or at least hope) the studies have advanced since then.

Megan Welch

Yes!! An episode on hydroponics would make my year 😍🥰

Cece Tincknell

For WV you should look into Dr. Sydnee McElroy who is a family physician but for the past decade she and her husband have been the hosts of a podcast called Sawbones where they talk about weird medical history. It would cool to do a crossover! And who doesn’t love weird medical history?

Jill Pelto

I am a climate artist working in New Mexico month with a group of scientists who study paleosol - ancient soils and fossils, under Dr. Emily Beverly ! Could be a cool combo of art + science, but may be too last minute!

Mark Eliason

Check out the Santa Fe Institute for interesting futuristic scientists! Boids AI.

Snakes_N_Bakes

Dr. Zac Loughman at West Liberty in WV. He is a guru of crayfish and also does some great field ecology work

Priya

The Acoma Pueblo is about an hour west of ABQ -- their pottery is incredible -- the tradition is thought to have been revived by "the Four Matriarchs" who passed the techniques down and they are still being made today... maybe there's someone who can serve as an expert on that? See https://westernartandarchitecture.com/features/the-four-matriarchs

Alyssa Steger

My friend Zoë Rossman studies coyotes and more specifically urban ecology (human/wildlife interactions)! She lives in Albuquerque and is a fan of Ologies, I'm certain she'd love to talk ologies with you if you end up in NM!

Misty Bentz

Both New Mexico and West Virginia have lots of astronomers/astrophysicists studying all sorts of things in the cosmos. WV in particular is home to a radio quiet zone around Green Bank Observatory that is operated by NRAO. Lots of ologists studying the cosmos there!

Paula Buhrdorf

Go to the Santa Fe Institute- it literally has some of the very smartest people in the world! It’s a science think tank that solves problems by cross pollinating sciences. The director David Krakauer is an amazing polymath and delightful to speak with. And the scientists in residence are amazing! https://www.santafe.edu/

Spencer Parks

Of course I know no one, but I'm excited to reap the benefits of these trips. Skunks?! Yes please. I see skunks around my place every once in a while so I'm really curious to know more about them. They are so cute too! Please and thank you.

Bálint Novák

YES! Evolutionary pssychologist Geoffrey Miller at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque! I loved his book about mate choice where he likens the human brain to a sports jeep: expensive, flashy and not very practical. His ideas about human sexual selection are FASCINATING and he's also breaking new ground by bringing back the feminist perspective into evolution theory by emhasizing that females are the ones ultimately making the choice and making the world go 'round. I wrote my psychology BA thesis based on his work. I would love to hear an interview with him! https://www.primalpoly.com/

Catherine Wood

I don't know anyone specifically but if you could do an interview with an expert on Chaco Canyon (mindblowing archaeology site about 3 hours outside Albuquerque) that would be amazing. There's a lot of recent research into the astronomical influences on the site, so archaeoastronomy could be a very cool ology!

Jenna Papke

I know an -ologist outside of Santa Fe, but not in New Mexican things. He’s a retired zoologist who specialized in rebuilding the black footed ferret population.

Sarah Khanlian

Lowriderology? It wasn't born here, but Espanola, NM, is the self-proclaimed lowrider capitol of the world.

Hanna Harem

The Turquoise Museum in Albuquerque is awesome! It's right downtown and its a great stop for only $15. And for the best breakfast burrito and other local favs go to Frontier Restaurant on Central Ave. by Campus. Tasty as Fuck!

Emily Baltz

Totally second Los Alamos National Lab; there's probably also interesting stuff going on at Sandia National Lab!

Heather Mechler

Yes! UNM Hospital has an excellent stroke care team (ask me how I know) and they do lots of impactful research.

Losifer

You must know Melissa Alonzo- I've known her since I was 18 months old.

HB

West Virginia is the only state with all of its counties designated as part of Appalachia, as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. As someone who loves Appalachian Studies and the diversity of this region's people, histories, and plant and non-human animal life, I would LOVE if you could interview someone who studies Appalachia! Can try to pick someone specific if you'd like. WVU hosted the annual Appalachian Studies Association conference in 2022 which had amazing merch with mothman and other local cryptids so that can be a good starting point for folks who spoke there.

Ted Vician

There’s got to be someone with good info tying mining and geology together.

Wandering Wyatt

I don’t know any ologists but NM was an unexpected delight when I visited there a few years ago. The food, the art, the sites - if you have a chance swing by the lava fields, Taos, Carlsbad Caverns (have you done a cave ology), the Very Large Array (radio telescope ology?). Enjoy!!! This Canadian loved it in NM.

Gregor

I work in Albuquerque for a boss whom I'd describe as a Museumologist. I'm a museum enthusiast, which attracted me to the company's work, particularly since the founder has had his fingers in so many of the iconic institutions I either grew up visiting or have aspired to visit. Ping me for deets! (And please take me with you to the Rattlesnake Museum ... I've been meaning to go!)

Haley K.

Please talk to someone at the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque!! Such wild history (not all of it positive..) and incredible confluence of math and science and art of the possible. The stretch along I-25 is apparently one of the highest concentrations of PhDs in the world due to the amount of national laboratories. You’ll have a hard time finding any ologists at the labs who will be able to talk, but the historical director at the Museum should be able to! https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/

Phoebe Teskey

Massospora cicadina! It also contains psychedelic compounds and makes the males act like females. Super interesting!

Robb and Carol Hermes

It looks like you have received wonderful suggestions for New Mexico: the VLA, White Sands, the Malpais by Grants, the lovely pueblos, and our famous green chile, among all of the others. I am so excited that you are coming to our beautiful little corner of the world!

Katie Wood

I may be too late but if you’re in Albuquerque you should absolutely go to Hurricane’s and have a disaster burrito. It is a work of culinary art.

Deanna Roberson

I was born in Albuquerque, and my family originates from New Mexico. The history of the entire state is so interesting!!! Billy the Kid to the White Sands missile range. Geology and space exploration was a huge part of growing up in the state!

Devon Naples

Also a hot topic due to recent protections put into place by Sec. Haaland

Devon Naples

<3 Thank you for loving NM! It's a magical and underrated place.