# Alfred Wegner

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Geological Expeditions of Yore ep. 1 – Alfred Wegner

Episode summary introduction:​ ​  This episode of GEOY is dedicated to brilliant interdisciplinary scientist, and pioneer polar explorer Alfred Wegener, whose theory of continental drift shook the foundations of geology, paleontology, and biology research. While today continental drift and plat…

Jilda Caccavo

Hi from Polar Times! Today's guest is marine biologist/conservation ecologist Jilda Caccavo of the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) and the Berlin Centre for Genomics in Biodiversity Research.  Your host once again is Jack Buckingham who chats to Jilda this week about Chilean sea bass a.k.a toothfish…

Critical Wit #29 – From The Cutting Room Floor 2

In this special two-part episode, I provide some audio clips from interviews that were not included in their respective episodes due to time constraints.  But I saved them because I thought they were informative and interesting.  Clips like “rules of thumb” when buying a car, is Alfred Wegner a goo…

Radio Parallax Show: 1/15/2015 (Segment C)

pervious concrete/asphalt - an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)

Radio Parallax Show: 1/15/2015 (Segment C)

pervious concrete/asphalt - an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)

Critical Wit #30 – From The Cutting Room Floor 3

In the second of this special two-part episode, I provide some more audio clips of interviews from the previous ten episodes.  Clips like whether “transgenic” is the same as “genetically engineered”, the similarities between Alfred Wegner and Charles Darwin, and comparing the United States to the r…

Alfred Wegner and Continental Drift

In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa and Europe. He proposed that the continents may at one time have been joined and subsequently moved. The scientific communit…

The Scientist Explorer who Died a Viking's Death

Alfred Wegener's life as a scientist in the early 1900s spanned numerous fields including astronomy and meteorology. But his theory of continental drift or displacement sparked a furor amongst geologists, many of whom branded him a scientific outsider, a reckless mischief maker ignorant of geologic…

The Origins of Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift

Ep. 3: The Origins of Plate Tectonics- Continental Drift explores the chain link from Climate Change to Fossil Fuels to Plate Tectonics to Continental Drift. First coined by Northern European map makers of the Seafaring Age, Continental Drift was a reflection of a sea oriented thinking. It was adva…