MK108 - Adam Lee - Life in the Studio: Recording Bands at Jackpot! Recording Studio

Adam has been making records in Portland for over 10 years. Some of the bands he has worked with include Portugal. The Man, Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Black Thought, Dame D.O.L.L.A, Built to Spill, Quasi, The Decemberists, Red Fang, and Jerry Joseph. Adam moved from Phoenix to Portland in 2009 after studying audio at MCC, and landed at Jackpot! shortly after. Aside from engineering, he has also scored and mixed films, produced children’s audio books, and captured live performances all around the city.

MK106 - Scott Burns - Exploring the Missoula Floods: Insights into Geology and Environmental Impact

Scott is a Professor Emeritus of Geology and Past-Chair of the Dept. of Geology at Portland State University where he just finished his 33rd year of teaching.  He was also Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at P.S.U. from 1997-1999.  He has been teaching for 53 years, with past positions in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana.  He is a 6th generation Oregonian who grew up in Beaverton and is very happy to be "home" after a 25 year hiatus!  Scott specializes in environmental and engineering geology, geomorphology, soils, and Quaternary geology. In Oregon, he has projects involving landslides and land use, environmental cleanup of service stations, slope stability, earthquake hazard mapping, Missoula Floods, paleosols, loess soil stratigraphy, radon generation from soils, the distribution of heavy metals and trace elements in Oregon soils, alpine soil development, and the terroir of wine.  He has been active in mapping landslides in the Pacific Northwest since his return to Portland.  Scott has won many awards for outstanding teaching with the most significant being the Faculty Senate Chair Award at Louisiana Tech University in 1987, the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Portland State Alumni Association in 2001, and the George Hoffmann Award from PSU in 2007.  He has authored over 100 publications and has had over 25 research grants.  His first book, Environmental, Groundwater and Engineering Geology: Applications from Oregon, came out January of 1998. His second book, Cataclysms on the Columbia, the Great Missoula Floods came out in October of 2009 and is co-authored by Marjorie Burns, a friend and professor at PSU.  Scott has been the president of the Faculty Senate at three different universities: Louisiana Tech University and the American College of Switzerland and Portland State University.  He actively helps local TV and radio stations and newspapers bring important geological news to the public. For the past 49 years he has been studying wine and terroir – the relationship between wine, soils, geology and climate.

MK103 - Stephen Frost - Human Evolution and Extinction Events: What Shaped Our History?

Steve is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. As a paleontologist and paleoanthropologist his interests are in human and primate evolution as well as ways to quantify biological shape and how it changes. He has conducted field and museum research in eastern Africa over the last 3 decades, which has primarily focused on the evolution of African monkeys and its relationship to climatic change. He is particularly interested in understanding what roles they played in their ecosystems, what those past ecosystems were like, and what larger aspects of Earth history and evolution they can help us to understand.

MK101 - Kris Gowen & Leah Haas - How Technology is Shaping Sex Education and Sexuality

L. Kris Gowen, PhD, EdM, is a sexuality educator, researcher, and co-founder of Beyond the Talk with Leah. She has taught Human Sexuality and Women’s Reproductive Health to university and graduate students, and is the author of Sexual Decisions: The Ultimate Teen Guide, which she's proud and sad to say is now on several banned books lists. 

Kris's passions have centered on the intersections of sexuality and technology since the mid-1990s, when she was a sexpert in an AOL chatroom for teenagers. Today, Kris presents on various topics from sexting to online dating to sex robots. She released a guide for educators, A Guide to Teaching about Online Sexually Explicit Media: The Basics, which has been featured in the NYT. She is also co-host of the online dating podcast B4 U Swipe.

Leah Haas (she/her) works in mental health as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in sexuality and gender at Inner Awareness Therapy.  She is a sex educator and trainer for the State of Oregon implementing a middle school, peer led, comprehensive sexual health curriculum.  Leah is co-founder of Beyond The Talk which provides sex education to adult populations.  In her free time, Leah loves to sing, backpack, and hang out with her dog Leto.