After a journey across the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean in a small sailboat, Jen Pate, director of eXXpedition: Seeing the Unseen, had a breezy time in the studio with hosts Harry Rice and Arman Golrokhian. Jen was in Ann Arbor to show the documentary as part of the Earth Day Film Festival. The film follows an all-woman team as they cross the Atlantic Ocean, assessing the load of plastics in the ocean and exploring the burden that toxic chemicals from these plastics place on our bodies.
For more on the science of ocean plastics, check out this conversation with Melissa Duhaime, Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology–produced by undergraduate students of the Program in the Environment:
This week’s It’s Hot in Here segment delves into the state of dams across our country’s river systems. We are joined on this expedition by Dr. Paul Moore, who brought members of his research team up from Bowling Green State University to shore up our knowledge before their teaching and fieldwork at the UM Biostation this summer.
This week’s episode features three University of Michigan music students discussing their spring compositions and performances. Rachel Epperly, a composition undergraduate, begins the show with a piece of hers called “Time Arrives.” Donia Jarrar spoke to us about her recent composition work, Seamstress. And Taya König-Tarasevich, pictured, spoke about the three flutes she’ll play in her Masters Recital.
After the live broadcast, we were able to record Taya playing another piece from her repertoire. As a bonus, you can listen to that here:
In this week’s segment of It’s Hot Out There, flautist Taya Konig-Tarasevich joins us in studio to teach our listeners about flutes. She explains the differences in pitch, sound, and history between the classical, baroque, and modern flutes, each made from distinct materias. Her visit came just before her masters recital, In a Living Memory. The video cannot do her immense talent justice, and is only a small and playful sample of her work, now happening at Julliard in Manhattan. How lucky we were to have her with us for a moment in Michigan!
After a journey across the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean in a small sailboat, Jen Pate, director of eXXpedition: Seeing the Unseen, had a breezy time in the studio with hosts Harry Rice and Arman Golrokhian. Jen was in Ann Arbor to show the documentary as part of the Earth Day Film Festival. The film follows an all-woman team as they cross the Atlantic Ocean, assessing the load of plastics in the ocean and exploring the burden that toxic chemicals from these plastics place on our bodies.
