{"id":15305,"date":"2024-04-16T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:41","slug":"carleton-biology-grads-on-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/carleton-biology-grads-on-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Biology Students on CBC Radio!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Biology Students on CBC Radio!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"what-happens-to-crickets-in-space\" class=\"wp-block-heading ule-pid-current-item-title\">What happens to crickets in space?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ule-pid-button-container\">\n<div class=\"playAllContainer ule-pid-play-button \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Our Biology Grads &amp; Undergrads: <strong>Emily McColville,<\/strong> <strong>Sophie Kasdorf,<\/strong> <strong>Hunter Brzezinski &amp; Cassandra Stabile<\/strong> working with <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/dr-sue-bertram\/\">Sue Bertram<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Heath MacMillan<\/a> were featured on CBC radio for their outstanding research on crickets.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Their team is sending crickets at different life stages on Canada&#8217;s Falcon 20 aircraft, which will fly in parabolas to simulate microgravity. They&#8217;ll be held in a secure case that&#8217;s regulated for temperature. The&nbsp;team is looking at &#8220;several different factors&#8221; from the flight, notably whether the crickets survive and if their age affects their likelihood of making it back alive.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to <strong>Sophie Kasdorf,<\/strong> a mission specialist with Team Insecta, crickets could be suitable for space travel because they can be raised in a small space with limited resources. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/can-crickets-become-space-food-these-carleton-researchers-want-to-find-out-1.7173188\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-92-all-in-a-day\/clip\/16055933-what-happens-crickets-space\">Click here!<\/a> to listen to the recording.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to crickets in space? &nbsp; Our Biology Grads &amp; Undergrads: Emily McColville, Sophie Kasdorf, Hunter Brzezinski &amp; Cassandra Stabile working with Sue Bertram &amp; Heath MacMillan were featured on CBC radio for their outstanding research on crickets. Their team is sending crickets at different life stages on Canada&#8217;s Falcon 20 aircraft, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}