Kit Marie chats to Jessica Law over some masala chai, chatting about the forgotten Midlands, stinkpipes, snails, migrating birds, amongst other things!

Jessica is a Biology graduate, former Communications Officer for BirdLife International and currently Editorial Assistant at an educational publisher. She is a science communicator who worked for a global environmental organisation for several years. Jessica is also a musician and the author of the popular singalong children's book, "A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea", which has entertained children worldwide with gruesome insights into the marine food chain. Her other achievements include reaching the finals of the World Snail Racing Championship, entering a song about eels into the EuroFISHion song contest, doing a stand-up routine about ornithology and, due to a misunderstanding about the vibe of the event, attending the British Birdwatching Fair dressed as a flamingo!

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

-   Black Country history (https://www.blackcountryhistory.org/)

-   The Midlands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands)

-   Map Men: The North-South Divide (https://youtu.be/ENeCYwms-Cc)

-   How Bazalgette Build London’s First Super Sewer (https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/how-bazalgette-built-londons-first-super-sewer) and London’s stink-pipes (https://londonist.com/2016/08/the-victorian-structures-hidden-in-plain-sight)

-   The gastropoda (https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/taxa/inverts/mollusca/gastropoda.php)

-   World Snail Racing Championships (http://www.snailracing.net/)

-   The megapode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapode)

-   Migratory flyways (http://datazone.birdlife.org/sowb/casestudy/the-flyways-concept-can-help-coordinate-global-efforts-to-conserve-migratory-birds)

The episode also contains the title track from Jessica Law’s album “Ghostwatching”. If you wish to hear more of Jessica’s music and support her work, visit https://jessicalaw.bandcamp.com. 

Expand your geography network and connect with Jessica via Twitter at (https://twitter.com/JessicaTheLaw) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jessicathelaw/)

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

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Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

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