The wonderful Christina Rae Butler, author of the recently published book titled Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina joins us. She spent close to a decade writing this first-ever...
Who better to talk about the birth of Phosphorus than Phosphorus himself. Right? We gave this show over to Phosphorus to tell this crazy tale. The story begins on a cold night in Hamburg; a German physician Hennig Brandt is attempting to create gold...
We go underground on this show to hear first hand from the people who help design tunnels and the equipment that make it possible. We hear some stories from an underground profession ruled by geology, massive machines, and above all, passion. Our...
In the spring, we published an episode where we talked to two researchers where they described how wastewater testing can act as a coronavirus early warning system. Since this show, this research has rocketed from a handful of labs at an...
During the day whether you are driving or walking the dog when do you actually look down at the ground. In this episode, we talk to three people who made discoveries while simply looking down. We talk to an engineer, an artist, and a local historian...
On this dispatch, we talk with Dr. Andrew Pyle who is an associate professor at Clemson University in the Communication Department. His interests include risk, crisis communication, and social media. Resilient organizations from a crisis...
On this dispatch, we talk with Pam Kenel who is the Director of Water Resources at Loudoun Water. Loudoun Water is just west of Washington DC and provides drinking water and wastewater services to over 80,000 households in Loudoun County. So not a...
In this story episode of The Outfall, we talk to two researchers on the front lines of using wastewater to analyze the epidemiology of a community. Wastewater surveillance for the Coronavirus has huge potential. Data suggests that each person...
This week we get to travel the world with no passports or luggage. Our adventure begins in Brest, France, and then we travel back in time to Hong Kong during the SARs epidemic. Our travel guide is the wonderful Vera Bin San who is a marine biologist...
Freaking out? You may not be alone. We’re all living in a moment of uncertainty and anxiety. One of the things we have done to help ourselves these past several weeks is to reach out to our friends in a continuing series of episodes we are calling...