Wow, it blew my mind when you said you've lived in Chicago for over ten years. I remember back when you worked at the Montana museum and gave Hank Green a tour. Then he helped set you up with your own channel and then you moved out to Chicago. Man, how does time fly. Edit: And then you inserted a clip from those very early days!
I was thinking the same thing. Hey fellow teen girls of 2012 who dreamed of taxidermy - how have things been going? I'm stuck in an office but I did learn to name and ID all my local plants. I'm working on killing my lawn and making a native plant garden. I still have the intent of keeping a roadkill deer (legal where I live) but never had the luck or courage to do so. I want to make tallow soap and brain tanned leather moccasins one day.
I really appreciate the quality of the subtitles in this video. Thanks for putting the effort of moving them away from text and graphics and according to the speaker.
Thank you, I’m glad you like them! We partner with a professional Captioning & Described Audio service www.DCMP.org who provide all of our captions & DA! We’ve worked together for years and I really appreciate what they do for us.
Ypu should visit in the winter, it's so beautiful. The lake forms icebergs and mini-glaciers, while the wind blows horizontal icicles from the trees and dead grass carves graceful arcs in the snow, like the wings of snow-angels.
I just moved to NW IN and I’ve already been to the dunes a few times! They actually just posted today on their social media that they are looking for volunteers this Saturday to help remove the invasive cattails. I’m thinking about going, any other Brain Scoop fans going to be there?
It’s cool to see how similar the Indiana dunes are to my local Saugatuck dunes! I remember going on a field trip and identifying a bunch of native and non-native plants for a systemic botany course in college.
@@aloofblubird That’s cool!! I think my favorite thing I learned in this video is how the plants and ecosystems change as you go deeper into the dunes from the shore. Like idk why I’m so excited by that but I AM
My friend Karter just moved to Chicago to do ecology stuff with fish (most of what I have heard is about talking to hobby fishermen). He's the expert, not me, but this stuff is neat.
It's really a privilege to be invited in to share people's work. It means a lot when they take time out of their day and let us follow them around with a crew all while asking personal questions 😅
RIGHT?! 😭 We didn't include it in this video, but they do collect seeds from native plants and propagate / reintroduce them. They literally put pantyhose over the dried flower buds to catch seeds lmaooo
amazing!!!! theres a really cute game i love on steam called kamaeru where you help start a frog sanctuary and restore wetlands, although interestingly in the game you're planting cattails to restore the wetlands lol
I'd gone to the Dunes National Lakeshore as a kid as our beach for years and never really thought of it as a "park" like I did the forest preserves we also went to growing up. Next time I go, I'll have to make sure to check out the trails, too! Great video ❤
I have a dumb question: if that purple plant isn't native to the area, then it seems like the beetle that specifically targets it wouldn't be native. Do they have a plan for keeping the beetle from becoming an invasive species? Sure, it might die off if it kills all the purple plants, but it might just adapt to also enjoying a native plant, maybe?
Not a dumb question at all! I looked it up, and the beetle was initially introduced in 1992 as part of a 5-15 year study. But surely those researchers didn't expect all the beetles would report back to the lab after that time 😝 Seems like they did testing of ~50 plant species in Europe before they were brought over to test that sort of thing. web.archive.org/web/20120402004204/www.biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/weedfeed/Galerucella.html
I have been there dozens of times. It's one of my favorite places to camp. I really like digging holes and the sand there is the best for it and building sand castles too.
This video is once again a high light. Great story and pictures. I like that the care of nature is combined with likeable, cheerful people/personalities. I enjoyed that.
Thank you, Emily. Keep going. You'll only get glimpses of how much joy and enthusiasm you've brought to the world. I would love to listen to you geek out with the EV Nautilus crowd; you could do each other (and the rest of us) a lot of good. May you continue to find fun and enrichment in what you do.
Ok, so PSA: I should NOT have worn that skort b/c I knew I'd need to wear the same outfit for both filming days. Both times, when I got home I scrubbed w/ dish soap and thought I did a good job -- but a week later I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at the National Institutes of Health and all I packed was a knee-length dress and I had the WORST poison ivy rash of my life. So while I was touring the NIH I had this oozing rash on my shin that I tried to ignore all day 😭 I had to go on steroids b/c I almost got infected DON'T DO WHAT I DID
We lost the biggest dune to glass. Thankfully, so many individuals and groups fought to protect both the state park and national park land here before it was all lost.
Thanks Emily for a great visit to the Indiana Dunes. It is also home to more than 600 species of wild mushrooms and macrofungi, with collections going back 130 years. People were using the South Shore Line trains to get to the dunes from Chicago before there were cars.
I wish I knew Laura in real life, what a wonderful, smart, inspiring woman! Her quote brought tears to my eyes. I live in Wisconsin and have never even heard of this park! I'll be visiting it soon!! Thanks Emily
A couple of years ago my partner and I stumbled across the Indiana Dunes on a roadtrip we did camping across the US. As someone not from the area, it was wild to find that environment, and was really beautiful. We did a sunrise hike across from our campsite to the shore, and it was absolutely breathtaking. Both in aesthetics and in breathing. Climbing those dunes is no joke, the sand really wants you to fail haha
I live across the bay from San Francisco, golden gate park used to be a giant sand dune. I always though it sounded cooler than the park. I like golden gate park but just wish built it somewhere else so we could have both.
We may not have giant sequoias, waterfalls, or geothermal springs, but we have the biodiversity angle covered! As of the last Bioblitz count, we had only five fewer species than Yosemite.
3:51 Does she have _turtles_ on her hat band? That is awesome. Also, I was going to make a joke about living the dream and becoming a national park ranger hoping you get to be in somewhere awesome like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon and they send you to ...here. ...to a beach. But then she said she went to school for this kind of stuff and now that joke doesn't seem so funny. She actually is living the dream. That's awesome. I guess it's hard for a Floridian like me to get excited about dunes and a beach.
I had a lot of help with this one! My criteria for appearing on the show is: "do you wanna be on it? Like, REALLY want to help get people pumped about your work?? great you're hired"
so, those are some large dunes! amazing what glacial climates can create. here in NW Montana, Flathead valley, we have some good sized dunes, also....created as the glaciers receded but still drew most of the moisture, making desert-like conditions downstream from the ice. out-wash plain, basically. said out-wash was full of the ground up rock, sand, which settled out of the run-off.....wind did the rest. pretty cool what ole Ma Nature can do. anyhoo, very interesting....the fact that the dunes are so close to Chicago is cool.....city folk need readily accessible natural landscapes to wander thru.....i'd go crazy if i couldn't walk thru the woods whenever i wanted. so, my dear Emily, whatcha got up your sleeve for the next one? whatever, i'm sure it will be very interesting. til then, i'm so happy to have you back on Brain Scoop😊 "it still has brains on it!"😅
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Wow, it blew my mind when you said you've lived in Chicago for over ten years. I remember back when you worked at the Montana museum and gave Hank Green a tour. Then he helped set you up with your own channel and then you moved out to Chicago. Man, how does time fly.
Edit: And then you inserted a clip from those very early days!
@@galaxa13 That first visit was in 2012, where has the time gone?! We all got old 😭
I was thinking the same thing. Hey fellow teen girls of 2012 who dreamed of taxidermy - how have things been going? I'm stuck in an office but I did learn to name and ID all my local plants. I'm working on killing my lawn and making a native plant garden. I still have the intent of keeping a roadkill deer (legal where I live) but never had the luck or courage to do so. I want to make tallow soap and brain tanned leather moccasins one day.
@@thebrainscoopWe're aging gracefully. TH-cam with my nephew is something else
Very upset that YT didn't tell me you'd come back until today. I missed this channel so much
better late than never! hey there 👋🏻
I absolutely love the reboot of the brain scoop ❤
Strong agree
I really appreciate the quality of the subtitles in this video. Thanks for putting the effort of moving them away from text and graphics and according to the speaker.
Thank you, I’m glad you like them! We partner with a professional Captioning & Described Audio service www.DCMP.org who provide all of our captions & DA! We’ve worked together for years and I really appreciate what they do for us.
I'd be walking without rhythm... just in case.
Haven't seen you around in a while, Mr Message.
😂😂
the spice must flow
As a Northwest Indiana native, this is super cool to see! :) Thanks for spending time with our little chunk of beauty.
Kicking myself that it took so long to make it over to y'all 😅
"The Region"
Ypu should visit in the winter, it's so beautiful. The lake forms icebergs and mini-glaciers, while the wind blows horizontal icicles from the trees and dead grass carves graceful arcs in the snow, like the wings of snow-angels.
I just moved to NW IN and I’ve already been to the dunes a few times! They actually just posted today on their social media that they are looking for volunteers this Saturday to help remove the invasive cattails. I’m thinking about going, any other Brain Scoop fans going to be there?
It’s cool to see how similar the Indiana dunes are to my local Saugatuck dunes! I remember going on a field trip and identifying a bunch of native and non-native plants for a systemic botany course in college.
@@aloofblubird That’s cool!! I think my favorite thing I learned in this video is how the plants and ecosystems change as you go deeper into the dunes from the shore. Like idk why I’m so excited by that but I AM
Warren dunes a bit more southerly are pretty beautiful too.
My friend Karter just moved to Chicago to do ecology stuff with fish (most of what I have heard is about talking to hobby fishermen). He's the expert, not me, but this stuff is neat.
love to see the conversations. you do such a good job interviewing people about the work they do. it's beautiful 💚
It's really a privilege to be invited in to share people's work. It means a lot when they take time out of their day and let us follow them around with a crew all while asking personal questions 😅
Dune Doctor is a sweet title tbh
it gives Dr. Who vibes✨
@@thebrainscoopOr "Dune" vibes.
so glad you unprivated/trip loaded this! excited for this watch!
Just a lil' hiccup 😅 so happy it's out there now!
It’s wonderful to know that all the those native plants weren’t totally gone, they were just waiting to be given a chance to grow again.
RIGHT?! 😭 We didn't include it in this video, but they do collect seeds from native plants and propagate / reintroduce them. They literally put pantyhose over the dried flower buds to catch seeds lmaooo
amazing!!!! theres a really cute game i love on steam called kamaeru where you help start a frog sanctuary and restore wetlands, although interestingly in the game you're planting cattails to restore the wetlands lol
@@ayden605 oh I wanna play that!! A scientifically accurate version would slap though
I love the passion and devotion that these park scientists/rangers have. Such great people doing amazing work. Thank you all.
I'd gone to the Dunes National Lakeshore as a kid as our beach for years and never really thought of it as a "park" like I did the forest preserves we also went to growing up. Next time I go, I'll have to make sure to check out the trails, too! Great video ❤
Oh man I grew up around here! Thanks for sharing more about one of my most nostalgic places!
the indiana dunes state park nature center has two amaaaaaazing antlion sculptures on display that are not to be missed!
YES!! I've got an image of the big wooden one fully burned into my brain forever. So rad
Heck yeah! Part of my job is to help manage mitigations sites up there! We loves our unique little piece of nature!!!
Oh that's so cool! I loved learning more about all of the work that goes into that sort of thing. Truly a team effort!
This is also part of the park systems where some types of prairie were rescued and/or reestablished.
I love this so much 😭 magical plants and plant people! And a model for successful habitat restoration -- dreamy!
I want to put you and Laura together and just watch magic happen lol
@thebrainscoop omg yesss
@@ScienceIRL Sounds like a good plan to us!
@@IndianaDunes @thebrainscoop let's do it!!
Excellent episode, Emily. I really like that style of show. Thank you!!
I love the Dunes! As a native NWI and rock hounder. Lol plus you talked to my professor too 😂😂
Oh that's so funny! Which one??
I gotta visit next time i go to chicago! and i'll definitely clean my boots thoroughly before walking....
Leslie Knope is proud of all of you dope ass women.
If I could have dinner with ANYONE ... let it be Leslie Knope
Definitely have to put this on my list the next time in Chicago!
The Sandberg quote gave me a lump in my throat
Awesome! Always glad to see new stuff from the Brain Scoop, and the Dunes are a fond memory from my childhood
I have a dumb question: if that purple plant isn't native to the area, then it seems like the beetle that specifically targets it wouldn't be native. Do they have a plan for keeping the beetle from becoming an invasive species? Sure, it might die off if it kills all the purple plants, but it might just adapt to also enjoying a native plant, maybe?
Not a dumb question at all! I looked it up, and the beetle was initially introduced in 1992 as part of a 5-15 year study. But surely those researchers didn't expect all the beetles would report back to the lab after that time 😝
Seems like they did testing of ~50 plant species in Europe before they were brought over to test that sort of thing.
web.archive.org/web/20120402004204/www.biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/weedfeed/Galerucella.html
I have the same question. Because we have seen this happen in historical cases.
Colorado resident here. Took decades before I visited our dunes. Insane how much geography, anthropology, etc can change in a relatively short range.
I have been there dozens of times. It's one of my favorite places to camp. I really like digging holes and the sand there is the best for it and building sand castles too.
Just made me think they should start hosting some competitive sand castle sculpture competitions
@@thebrainscoop The state park holds one every summer!
This video is once again a high light. Great story and pictures. I like that the care of nature is combined with likeable, cheerful people/personalities. I enjoyed that.
Emily is baaack 😁😁😁😁
💃 HEY 🕺🏼 HEY 👯♀️ HEY 🪩
@@thebrainscoop (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉(👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉 We missed youuu 🥹🥹
Fun!! Public transit to wilderness areas 😻😻😻
We’re so lucky to have these dunes close by!
Thank you, Emily. Keep going. You'll only get glimpses of how much joy and enthusiasm you've brought to the world. I would love to listen to you geek out with the EV Nautilus crowd; you could do each other (and the rest of us) a lot of good. May you continue to find fun and enrichment in what you do.
I would have loved to have worked outdoors in the park service when I was younger, but I'm severely allergic to poison ivy. ; _ ;
Ok, so PSA: I should NOT have worn that skort b/c I knew I'd need to wear the same outfit for both filming days. Both times, when I got home I scrubbed w/ dish soap and thought I did a good job -- but a week later I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at the National Institutes of Health and all I packed was a knee-length dress and I had the WORST poison ivy rash of my life. So while I was touring the NIH I had this oozing rash on my shin that I tried to ignore all day 😭 I had to go on steroids b/c I almost got infected DON'T DO WHAT I DID
Always a great time! Thanks for the video!
I love the dunes. I used to bike there whenever I had a free day at college.
Oh wow! Can I ask, what was the route you took? I wanna do that 😅
crazy to imagine that the place almost got destroyed for glass
We lost the biggest dune to glass. Thankfully, so many individuals and groups fought to protect both the state park and national park land here before it was all lost.
Thanks Emily for a great visit to the Indiana Dunes. It is also home to more than 600 species of wild mushrooms and macrofungi, with collections going back 130 years. People were using the South Shore Line trains to get to the dunes from Chicago before there were cars.
Lovely! I've visited those dunes a few times, but not that woods. I'll check that out the next time I'm up there. Really cool place.
I've been watching since before Emily went to Chicago, myself. Not quite OG, but close. I wonder if Emily stays in touch with Hank.
@@rickseiden1 I do! Well, here and there. He likes my stuff on Instagram sometimes
I wish I knew Laura in real life, what a wonderful, smart, inspiring woman! Her quote brought tears to my eyes. I live in Wisconsin and have never even heard of this park! I'll be visiting it soon!! Thanks Emily
I have also been watching since Hank's first video! the renaissance is magical :)
Holy Cow This Video Is Full Of Heart
A couple of years ago my partner and I stumbled across the Indiana Dunes on a roadtrip we did camping across the US. As someone not from the area, it was wild to find that environment, and was really beautiful. We did a sunrise hike across from our campsite to the shore, and it was absolutely breathtaking. Both in aesthetics and in breathing. Climbing those dunes is no joke, the sand really wants you to fail haha
I live across the bay from San Francisco, golden gate park used to be a giant sand dune. I always though it sounded cooler than the park. I like golden gate park but just wish built it somewhere else so we could have both.
Makes me sad that I remember your move to Chicago.
I moved away recently after being born and raised there. Miss it...
Glad to see us OG brain scoop fans getting out there!
wow, so cool to learn about this place!
1:11 DUNE DOCTOR?? Excited to find out if she has a doctorate in dunes, if she helps dunes get healthy, or both!
I discovered native swamp loosestrife this year in my area, but the purple loosestrife is ever present as well.
Such a great episode!! Thank you!
Glad to see you. Great video.
Another great video!
We'd be happy with stories preserving a few species but 1,100 species of plants alone?! That's insane!
We may not have giant sequoias, waterfalls, or geothermal springs, but we have the biodiversity angle covered! As of the last Bioblitz count, we had only five fewer species than Yosemite.
... now I'm mad I forgot to include this tidbit in the VO somewhere 😅
3:51 Does she have _turtles_ on her hat band? That is awesome.
Also, I was going to make a joke about living the dream and becoming a national park ranger hoping you get to be in somewhere awesome like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon and they send you to ...here. ...to a beach. But then she said she went to school for this kind of stuff and now that joke doesn't seem so funny. She actually is living the dream. That's awesome.
I guess it's hard for a Floridian like me to get excited about dunes and a beach.
She worked at a local university and was brought over to the dark side as a park ranger! The park is *so* incredibly lucky to have her.
Emily! It's always good to see you. Thank you for another post full of important information.
Also, I love your skirt - it has pockets!
i never had any idea that the dunes were a thing!!
You do such a good job of finding great, passionate people and letting them shine. I loved everyone in this, and I think that's something special.
I had a lot of help with this one! My criteria for appearing on the show is: "do you wanna be on it? Like, REALLY want to help get people pumped about your work?? great you're hired"
It’s so heartening to see how they were able to restore biodiversity so successfully.
So interesting to learn the connection between the dunes and ecology.
so, those are some large dunes! amazing what glacial climates can create. here in NW Montana, Flathead valley, we have some good sized dunes, also....created as the glaciers receded but still drew most of the moisture, making desert-like conditions downstream from the ice. out-wash plain, basically. said out-wash was full of the ground up rock, sand, which settled out of the run-off.....wind did the rest. pretty cool what ole Ma Nature can do.
anyhoo, very interesting....the fact that the dunes are so close to Chicago is cool.....city folk need readily accessible natural landscapes to wander thru.....i'd go crazy if i couldn't walk thru the woods whenever i wanted.
so, my dear Emily, whatcha got up your sleeve for the next one? whatever, i'm sure it will be very interesting. til then, i'm so happy to have you back on Brain Scoop😊 "it still has brains on it!"😅
Has it really been ten years?? 😮
The first Brain Scoop video was published in 2012 💀
Excellent video. I had no idea about these dunes.
Soil vs Dirt; I ride a dirt bike and it’d be a tough sell for us to call them a soil bike.
Cheers
Hahaha “Whassup kids and welcome to the first-annual soil bike races!!! Get ready to leave some skid marks!!” I’m dead
that place is so cool!! i love it when grass grows on sand.
I got chills from that quote too!
Great video!
Emily is a true original.
The dunes are my favorite. Thank you for filming this. I hate dunes pavilion owned by Luke oil. They sell styrofoam coolers right on the beach
Bad luck at the dunes. Every time I go, I lose something.
From Pokemon cards to iPod Nanos. Just bad luck.
I noticed that there were a lot of women working at this park which is not typical. I am happy to see those passionate experts.
DUNES DUNES DUNES DUNES DUNES DUNES DUNES DUNES
Does Erin like the movie Dune 😂
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Love you Emily!
cool
Indiana dunes and the temple of Jome
thought i heard indiana jones
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Dunes, dunes, dunes!!
Duunneesss!!! ❤✈️🎮
Baby dune doo doo doo doo doo doo
Dune science? Where are the stillsuites and ornithopters? Wait... wrong dune.
Colonialism is a wild thing
Poor patrons got less than a second at the end of a 18 minute video
4:20: is that joe Biden narrating?
If you wanna make soil, get you some fungus! 🍄
didn't realize a fun guy was the missing magic
Does it _still_ have brains on it?
My editor accidentally left it off on an export and even I was like "🤯 DOES IT THOUGH??" haha we had to fix it
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