Volunteer

Astrochem Coffee is an entirely volunteer effort, and it takes a lot of time each month to stay on top of things, conduct interviews, edit the show, summarize papers, research historical segments, and so forth.  If you'd like to help out, we'd definitely like to hear from you!  If any of the needs below fit your interest and skills, please email us at coffee@astrochem.net and we can discuss!

• Grab & Go Paper Summaries

  • Help out by providing 3-4 sentence summaries of one or more Grab & Go papers each month, either noting and highlighting papers you find interesting yourself, or just working on those we have on our list already.

• Conduct Interviews

  • Podcast episode are way more fun when it's not just Brett talking the entire time.  We have a rotating slate of guest hosts that reach out to folks and conduct 10-20 minute interviews, usually via Zoom.  We'd like to start recording some of these with video as well, if that suits your interests.  Total time commitment is usually ~1 hour per interview when you factor in prep work, setup, etc.  

  • Generally speaking you don't need specialized equipment for this, but a reliable internet connection and at least halfway decent laptop mic + headphones is required.

• Percolator Segments

  • If you're particularly fascinated by astrochemical history, and want to contribute one or more segments for the percolator, that would be great!  Provide the script for Brett to read or work with us to record it yourself!  These take a bit longer, but there's no long-term commitment here -- while of course we'd love recurring submissions, one-off collaborations are great as well.

• Barista Bootcamp

  • We love to intersperse little primer segments on a particular topic to keep things fresh.  If you'd like to provide a ~10 minute overview of a topic in your area written for a ~1st year grad student level, that'd be great!  Again, you can provide the script for Brett to read, or work with us to record it yourself.

• Producing

  • If you have experience editing and producing audio for podcasts and want to help out, let's chat.  If it worked out, this would require a much longer-term commitment (probably at least a year).