Today's storyteller is Dr Karen Joyce! Karen is a geospatial scientist, and today we talk all about drones, remote sensing, geography, and everything in between! Karen wears a lot of hats - she's a lecturer at James Cook University in Australia, she's the cofounder and education director of She Maps (which we'll talk about), and she also runs the drone data repository GeoNadir (which we didn't even get to in this conversation!). She Maps is really brilliant and aiming at diversifying STEM using drones and geospatial tools through programs in schools. Karen tells the story of how it came to be in this episode so I won't give it away but it's such a cool program. Enjoy!

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and Twitter @storytellers42.

You can find Karen on Twitter @KEJoyce2 and her website https://www.kejoyce.com/.

You can find She Maps on Twitter @shemapsau, their website https://shemaps.com/, and on Facebook.

GeoNadir: https://www.geonadir.com/

Book List: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Episodes referenced in this episode: My friend Tim with the drone is Tim Spruill (Episode 8).

You can find Homeward Bound at their website https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/, on Twitter @HomewardBound16, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homewardboundprojects.

Recorded on 19 June 2021.