18: Learning Adventurously (w/ Dillon the Biologist)

Dillon Jones (@dillonthebiologist) is energetic, fun, and bursting with creative ideas for making conservation better, especially through technology. We talk about everything from using ziplines to survey turtles, decentralizing traditionally bureaucratic ways of doing science, using ecotourism and travel to benefit conservation, science misinformation and handling haters and trolls, the connection with geotagging and white supremacy (jk- there is none), and a whole host of other innovative topics. I’m not sure how he does it all – there’s so much packed in here and I hope you glean something fresh and revolutionary from it! 

It’s a long one for sure but most podcast apps give you the option to speed it up, so listen to the whole thing, mmk? It’s worth it, trust me. :)

And at the very end I talk about my idea for a field biology reality show, so: Nat Geo, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, if you’re listening, hit me up. Seriously. ;)

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