Episode 035 - Isabella Aiona Abbott | Phycologist & Ethnobotanist

Alternate Title: Authoritarian Seaweed

Emlyn tells Emma about the Pacific phycologist and Hawaiian ethnobotanist, Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, and Emma tells Emlyn about the body mass index (BMI) of Marvel characters!

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Sources 

Main Story - Isabella Aiona Abbott

1. LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX. Isabella Aiona Abbott. https://www.pbshawaii.org/long-story-short-with-leslie-wilcox-isabella-aiona-abbott/
2. Stanford News, Isabella Abbott, world-renowned Stanford algae expert, dies at 91” https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/izzie-abbott-obit-120710.html
3. “Pioneering professor is first lady of limu” by Jennifer Crites http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2010/10/isabella-abbott/
4. Isabella Aiona Abbott: 2001 Distinguished Economic Botanist: Interpreting Pre-Western Hawaiian Culture as an Ethnobotanist. (2002). Economic Botany, 56(1), 3-6. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/stable/4256514
5. “Inspiration of Izzie” by Julie Packard https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inspiration-from-izzie_n_791382
6. “A tribute to Isabella Aiona Abbott on the occasion of her 85th birthday. Happy Birthday Izzie!” by Huisman J.M. and Norris J.N. Cryptogamie, Algol., 2004, 25 (3): 219-239 https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/23539/1/tribute%20to%20isabella%20abbott.pdf

 

Women who werk

1. Scientists find a possible biomarker for detecting CTE

• https://www.livescience.com/65434-cte-concussion-biomarker-tau.html
• https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2019/05/08/WNL.0000000000007608

2. Captain Dorito and the bombshell

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190501153356.html
• https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Febs0000164

 

Music

“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

 

Cover Image

Stanford University