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## AnthroAlert

## Episode 30: Sea Turtles

Originally aired 26 January 2018 on bullsradio.org

Guest W. Alex Webb discusses his research on sea turtles and how he ended up as an anthropology PhD student.

BS Psychology SLC, UT - 2007

MSc Marine and Environmental Science, USVI - 2013

Phd (trying) Applied Anthropology, USF – 2020?

Fun resume facts:

Taught English in S. Korea in 2007

Managed a leatherback sea turtle research project in Grenada for the 2008 nesting season (Feb – Aug)

Lived in a hotel doing hawksbill sea turtle research for the Barbados sea turtle project in 2008 (Aug – Dec)

Worked in a psychiatric institute for a few years providing direct patient care

Lived in St. Thomas for about 4 years while going to grad school (and a year or so managing a bar and hanging out)

Wife and I went on a 7 month honeymoon around the world starting in Bali, Indonesia and ended in Dublin, Ireland.

Academic interests: Rapid ethnographic techniques, knowledge systems, development issues, text and data mining

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## Album art photo credit:

Oliver Thompson

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## Intro music credit:

Awel by stefsax

http://ccmixter.org/files/stefsax/7785

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Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba

http://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345

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There's A Better WAY ! by Loveshadow

http://ccmixter.org/files/Loveshadow/34402

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"Jungle Tracking" by pingnews

http://ccmixter.org/files/pingnews/13481

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