TTE 02 Kayla Iacovino
A conversation with Kayla Iacovino, who’s job title is Experimental Petrologist for NASA. I worked with Kayla in 2018 for a NOVA special called Polar Extremes and she is a fantastic scientist and communicator. But more than that Kayla is a Badass! She has just applied for the latest Astronaut intake, so fingers crossed for her there. She is also a massive Sci fi fan and runs Trekmovie.com, the largest unofficial Star Trek website, plus the Star Trek Podcast ShuttlePod. In her work Kayla is using a number of techniques to map the inside of Volcanic systems, to create a picture of what the Volcano looks like miles underground. She has travelled to some really extreme locations for her work, including North Korea, and is interested in Volcanoes on planets other than Earth in our Solar System, The conversation was recorded on 18th April, right at the height of the Coronavirus Crisis, so there are references to those events. The delay is due to time spent recording a number of episodes, which mean I have content to be released fortnightly for the next few months.