Long Friendships Make Long Telomeres with Dr. Kim Patten

Ramble by the River

Dr. Kim Patten has been on the top of my must-have guest list since I started Ramble by the River. In the world of aquatic invasive species, Dr. Kim Patten is a rockstar, and somehow, we got him to sit down in the crab-shed to share a few of the secrets of his success. He tells the story of his life; from his humble beginnings as a learning-disabled child on the ski slopes of Mammoth Lakes, California, through his controversial and highly-productive research career at Washington State University, to his recent retirement and the transition into grandparenthood and novice rowing.

We talked about the huge impact that Dr. Patten has had on the Willapa Bay, local politics, and in my life. After giving me my first job in natural resources in 2005, Dr. Patten has been a mentor, a role model and my most-trusted advisor ever since. I owe my career to him and he has contributed so much to my view of what a good man should be like. I love him and I think you will too.

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Kombucha; running; Olympic runners; learning disorders; Dyslexia; Dyscalculia; introversion; University of California Berkeley; UC Davis; Washington State University; grand-parenting; Texas A&M; Texas culture; culture shock; Arcata, CA; Portland, OR; homelessness; charitable giving; Climate Change; ecology; wildfires; sociology; Bill Gates; Covid-19; Spartina; Willapa Bay; WSU extension; Monsanto; Bayer; glyphosate; Sen. Sid Snyder; land-grant universities; aquatic weed management, cranberries; cranberry farming; Willapa National Wildlife Refuge; The Nature Conservancy; Olympic National Resource Center; plant morphology; invasive species; Western Fly-way; burrowing shrimp; ghost shrimp; carbaryl; cost/benefit analysis; caffeine; Washington State Department of Agriculture; rowing; sculling; 3D printing; Leadbetter Point State Park; gorse; Ulex Europeaus; fire; New Zeland; Bray Head; Bandon, Oregon; Goat Rocks; Mt. Rainier; wildflowers; bees; native bees; bombas melanopygus; bombas mixtus; mushrooms; boletus; golden chanterelles; Indian heavens wilderness; king boletes; boletus edulus; rabbit road; dopamine; Columbia Land Trust; Jug Lake; Gifford Pinchot National Forest; Patreon.com; Harvard longevity study; friendship; telomeres; Blue Zones; machismo; pickle ball; tendonitis; Platelet-rich plasma (PRP); stem cells; healing; physical-therapy; collagen; mitochondria; risk-perception; confirmation bias; unconscious mind; fallacies of logic; statistics; SAS, SPSS; Microsoft Excel; statistics; probability; String theory; quantum gravity; multiverse; Schrödinger’s cat; Seasonal Affective Disorder; sun exposure; skin cancer; melanoma; glyphosate; Round up; The Home Depot; gut; microbiome; fecal colony transplant; 23andMe; genetics; Alzheimer’s Disease; Parkinson’s Disease; free will.

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Music Credit(s):

Still Fly, Revel Day.

Be My Remedy, House of Say

Read about Dr. Patten's Lifetime Achievement Award...

https://news.wsu.edu/2019/03/12/lifetime-achievement-award-caps-extension-scientists-career/

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