Radio bites
I produce radio stories and record short interviews as either stand-alone packages or to accompany online news. Because sometimes a story just needs to be told with sound.
The emergence of complex life
ABC RN | SCIENCE SHOw | JUNE 2020
Around 600 million years ago, the Earth was covered in ice. But as the ice slowly melted — the end of Snowball Earth — the chemical composition of the oceans also changed. Anthony Dosseto explains how the big melt may have triggered the explosion of complex life on Earth.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Getting blood donors back in the chair
ABC RN | HEALTH REPORT | NOV 2019
Donating blood takes less than an hour — and just a single donation can save up to three lives. But around 40 per cent of us don't get back in the chair after our first blood donation. How might emotions influence someone’s decision to donate again?
Michiel Neethling
How do corals survive in extreme conditions?
ABC RN | SCIENCE SHOW | MAR 2020
Corals are sensitive to hot ocean water, high acidity and low oxygen levels. But some corals thrive in these extreme conditions. Emma Camp is studying these species to determine how they survive, hoping to use this knowledge in conservation measures for the wider Great Barrier Reef.
Paul Jones/UOW
After 180 years, suddenly we know more about breasts
ABC RN | SCIENCE SHOW | NOV 2019
Amazingly, textbooks used by anatomists and surgeons contain descriptions and illustrations of the human breast which have changed little since the work of Astley Cooper in 1840. But an update is imminent, thanks to Katie Gaskin at the University of Wollongong.
Paul Jones/UOW
Paul Jones/UOW
Resistant nerves could lead to treatment for neurodegenerative disease
ABC RN | SCIENCE SHOW | AUG 2019
Motor neurone disease is debilitating disease where nerve cells die and muscles waste away. But some nerves, like the motor neurones that control the eyes, are somehow spared. Professor Justin Yerbury wants to know why.
Blimp used to spot sharks
ABC RN | SCIENCE SHOW | MAR 2018
Lifeguards have a lot to look out for: swimmers in distress, rips and visiting sharks. On the south coast of NSW, Kye Adams has an eye helping him in the sky.