The Field Trip Podcast will produce a new episode every Monday through December 2011. The podcast will also be available on iTunes at the end of December. Here’s the Press Release:
Hello there!
Welcome to The Field Trip Podcast, a free audio adventure that takes science out of the lab and into the world. Our first episode is available for download today at www.FieldTripPodcast.com, and we’ll release a new one each Monday through December.
Our first trip joins NASA scientists as they hunt for clues about life on Mars at the nearest stand-in (the bottom of a lake in Canada) and features an interview with the wonderfully witty science writer Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars, about what it really would be like to send astronauts to the Red Planet. Future adventures will involve a fisherman with the blues, a huge fire inside a tiny box, 750 pounds of cabbage, plus many guest experts who will join us to illustrate how science is used in the real world.
You can listen or download for free on FieldTripPodcast.com, and we’ll also be making the podcast available to public radio stations through the Public Radio Exchange. (iTunes downloads coming at the end of December.)
The Field Trip Podcast is hosted by a small but daring crew of science reporters, graduates of”Óand instructors at”ÓUC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Our hosts and correspondents are Eric Simons (author of Darwin Slept Here and a forthcoming pyschological thriller about the curious inner workings of sports fans) and Kara Platoni, a longtime science and environmental reporter for alt-weekly papers and national magazines. Our producer is Casey Miner of KALW public radio in San Francisco.
If you’re interested in distributing or broadcasting The Field Trip Podcast, or speaking with our news crew, please get in touch at: media@fieldtrippodcast.com.
We hope you’ll join us!
Find us online:
Email: media@fieldtrippodcast.com
Our Web page: http://www.fieldtrippodcast.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheFieldTripPodcast
Twitter: Follow @FieldTripLog
You can listen to their first episode here and look for more to come every Monday this month!
UPDATE
Episode #2 is now available, in which we hear about Eric’s not terribly secret love of fish, we meet a commercial salmon fisherman with the blues, and visit a vast underground library of jarred fish. Read more about it here