Your PhD Coach Is Here AND The Kidz Are Not Alright


In advance of her 10/20 workshop at UCI for PhD students, is Kimberly Duong, UCI School of Engineering graduate, now employed as a water agency civil engineer. She will return to the show to talk about her new calling as a PhD coach, assisting PhD students in: productivity, project management, procrastination, and anything else related. She can be followed in various ways at: https://itscoachkimberly.com/wp/. Her 10-20-23, noon- 1 p.m. PT, on line webinar registration: https://gps-stem.grad.uci.edu/project/2023-10-20/.

In the second segment (approx. minute 23:42), Briana Walker (@InMinivanHell) returns in her capacity as a local muckraker, to talk about local school board culture war policies cropping up all over Orange County. Her work is proof of the importance of down ballot voting, such as the next primary election on March 5, 2024. Resources available at: Rainbow Youth Project and Our Schools hotline 866-975-8870, and Ladera Ranch Social Justice Conversations on the Zuck pages. The extended interview portion follows this posting.

http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/DuongWalker9-26-23.mp3

Music credits: Chimora, “Africano Americano,” Sounds of Africa – album; #2 T S Monk, “Crepuscule with Nellie,” Monk on Monk – album; and #11 Sportive Tricks, “Rigs of Time,” Old Dogs New Tricks – album.

The extended portion of this interview, thank you everyone for listening: http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/BrianaExtTrack9-26-23.mp3

Climate Strikes and Climate Forums as the Climate Changes

We bring back climate science researchers: Kimberly Duong (UCI) and Gianna Lum (Columbia University). Joining them is the new UCI President of Climatepedia, Patricia Haigh, to herald a huge season of youthful grassroots climate activism, as organizers gather in New York in advance of Greta Thunberg’s much anticipated UN address and the September 20th Global Climate Strike. As their part of these forums, they will host “Irvine Climate Resilience” 9-20, 10 a.m. at Culver Drive-Alton Parkway. Details are available at: https://strikewithus.org and https://www.facebook.com/events/2352180881708008/.
Stop by the Climatepedia booth at the Anteater Involvement Fair!September 23rd, 12-4pmAldrich Parkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/502950263773029/
Follow Climatepedia at UCI on Facebook for our meeting dateshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/Climatepedia.at.UCI/
Follow @Climate_memes on instagram https://www.instagram.com/climate_memes/?hl=en.

UCI Climate Communication All Stars

Back by popular demand and the host’s insistence on finishing what we started, is UCI engineering PhD candidate Kimberly Duong. Gianna Lum, senior Earth System Scientist at UCI, joins her in taking up effective science communication, bridging research with the general public to increase literacy, with their pretty impressive tools. Their many useful sources and tools are: https://sustainability.uci.edu/portfolio-items/climatepedia-at-uci/https://www.instagram.com/climate_memes/?hl=en, and https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/.  

A Poseidon Proposition AND Science Meets Message

Joe Geever, of Residents for Responsible Desalination, provides an activist’s tutorial on all those desalination plants in place or proposed along the California Coast.  Follow their progress at:http://r4rd.org. Psssst, there’s lots of moving targets.

In the second segment (min 31:54), for our consideration is UCI School of Engineering Ph.D. candidate, Kimberly Duong with the anatomy of a researcher and a spokesperson. To bend an old adage: Water issues everywhere and not a moment to squander.