Episode 3 - Blas Valero

In this third episode of Into the Core, the team records live from the IPA-IAL 2025 conference in Aix-les-Bains, France, where we ask scientists to share their funniest field stories.

Our first guest at the conference comes all the way from Spain: Blas Valero, researcher at the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología in Zaragoza. A sedimentologist, paleoclimatologist, and passionate science communicator, Blas shares some of the unusual traditions he and his team carry out after completing a lake-drilling campaign.

Host: Rodrigo Martínez-Abarca
Starring: Blas Valero

"Into the Core" is supported by the International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) and an initiative of the Early Career Researchers Network. Original idea by Marta Marchegiano.

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