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Welcome to Wonder, the planet earth podcast for curious people. Hosted by earth scientists Holly Cooke & Dr Anthony Reid.
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- Greenland's deep geological memory with Dr Julie Hollis · 36 minA few weeks before Holly set sail for Greenland with The Explorers Club and Adventure Canada’s 2026 Young Explorers Program, she and Anthony sat down with Dr Julie Hollis for a…
- What isotopes reveal about ancient cratons with Dr Eric Vandenberg · 28 minWhere Anthony sees crystals and Holly sees a rock, Dr Eric Vandenberg sees atoms, and specifically, Eric counts the neutrons. Eric is a postdoc at the Adelaide University and…
- Ancestry among the ashes: what volcanic records reveal about human evolution with Dr Hayden Dalton · 29 minVolcanologist Dr Hayden Dalton (University of Melbourne) joins Holly & Anthony with the science he's bringing to a fascinating human question: exactly how many hominin species…
- Earthquakes, extinctions & deep microbiology: the discoveries made by scientific ocean drilling with Dr Ron Hackney · 33 minPushing the frontiers of knowledge about our planet has never been so much fun! We've explored less of the ocean floor than we have the surface of Mars, so Dr Ron Hackney…
- The amazing chemistry of ocean sediments with Dr Stefan Loehr · 38 minWe've directly observed less than 0.001% of the seafloor — so what's really going on down there? In this episode, Dr Stefan Löhr (ARC Future Fellow at the Adelaide University…
- Exploring for critical chromium, from the ground up (to space!) · 26 minCritical Chromium: From Field Samples to Space Technology: How Do We Secure Supply? Exploring for critical chromium, from the ground up (to space!) Aerospace alloys, industrial…
- Carbonatites: to REE or not to REE? · 25 min💎 Carbonatites: To REE or Not to REE? Earth's strangest magma is carbonate-rich, comes from the mantle, and there's only ONE erupting on the planet right now. It's called a…
- This critical metal is only found in mine waste? Dr Olivia Mejias Gonzalez on indium... · 31 min✨ The Weirdest Critical Metal You've Never Heard Of: Indium, Mine Waste & the Hunt for Hidden SuppliesYou've touched it hundreds of times. It's in your phone screen, your laptop…
- Looking for Lithium: from rocks in Rajasthan to laboratories in Western Australia · 26 minElectric vehicles are the future. But here's the problem: India's lithium demand is skyrocketing, but the local supply is nearly zero. Enter pegmatites: fancy, crystal-studded…
- The Australia-India Partnership: CSIRO on Critical Minerals Exploration Across Continents · 16 minWhen you connect wirelessly to anything, you have CSIRO to thank - they are the ones who invented Wi-Fi. But beyond the banknotes and wireless tech, Australia's national science…
- Shared origins for the Yilgarn's precious metals? · 29 minAustralia's largest platinum deposit was hiding 70km from Perth CBD, and nobody had thought to look. In 2020, Chalice Mining drilled the very first hole at a site on the western…
- Why the Earth's surface yo-yos: Dr Mark Hoggard on the flowing mantle · 32 minThe Earth bobs up and down like a yo-yo over geological time, and it's drawn a treasure map of the world's metals... What if the ground beneath your feet has been silently rising…
- Tasmania's epic geological record with Dr Jacqui Halpin · 34 minOn today's episode of Wonder, Holly & Anthony are joined online by Dr Jacqueline Halpin from the University of Tasmania for an armchair geological tour of one of Australia's most…
- Our fishy ancestors: Dr Alice Clement on the palaeontology of the lobe-finned fish · 35 minDid you know that humans are a type of lobe-finned fish!? Turns out our story begins 400 million years ago, when some very special fishies began making the move from sea to land…
- Discovering an ancient continent & other wild adventures in Madagascar with Professor Alan Collins · 31 minWhat does it take to discover a continent? Apparently four months in the Madagascan wilderness with no phone, some crunchy crickets to snack on, and a whole lot of time bouncing…
- How did the Canadian Rockies form, with Nick Zentner · 34 minThe Rocky Mountains - lands of towering peaks glacier carved valleys, huge faults and unique geological heritage. In this episode of Wonder, we lace up our boots and head into…
- Writer & illustrator Vojta Hybl on the art of knowing the Earth · 32 minWe adored our time with writer, illustrator, educator, and 'not-geologist(!!!)', Vojta Hybl (aka @vojta.illustrates). Look, we don't have better words to summarise these ideas…
- Did plants drive ancient ice ages? Rewinding the Earth's evolution with Professor Ben Mills (Part 2) · 31 minWe start todays episode at the end of the world with Professor of Earth System Evolution, Ben Mills. Soon we're looking at his incredible grid cell model of the Earth and…
- Does life regulate the Earth's atmosphere? The Gaia hypothesis with Professor Ben Mills (Part 1) · 32 minTodays show is something super special for you guys... Professor Ben Mills joins us in studio (all the way from the UK!) to walk us through what is genuinely one of the most…
- How gold nuggets grow with Dr Chris Voisey (Part II) · 20 minToday we continue our electrifying conversation with the hilarious Dr Chris Voisey about his impressive experiments and what they tell us about the mysterious ways of gold nugget…
