# Space Botany Adventures with Paul Sokoloff (GotG65)

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Podcast: [Gardeners of the Galaxy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-744695)
Published: 2025-03-31T08:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1113

## Resource

Our Mission Specialist for this episode is Paul Sokoloff, a senior research assistant in botany at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Paul is very involved in cataloguing plant and lichen biodiversity in the Arctic and beyond. He’s also a sci-fi fan and an analog astronaut who has participated in multiple biological expeditions at the Mars Desert Research Station. Find the show notes for this episode, and much more about growing plants in space, at https://spacebotany.uk/.

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