7 min

13: Jumping into Leaves w/ Urban Forester Georgia Silvera Seamans SpaceBus | A Stellar Adventure to Start your School Day

    • Kids & Family

Why do trees lose their leaves? Urban Forester Georgia Silvera Seamans explores the unbe-leaf-able world of seasonal changes in trees! 
Georgia Silvera Seamans is the co-founding director of Washington Square Park Eco Projects in New York City where you can find her looking at plants and watching birds. She is an urban forester, independent researcher, and writer. She has bylines with Popular Science, Audubon.com, and UrbanOmnibus.net, and her research has been published in academic journals. She blogs about urban nature at www.localecologist.org. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University, the Yale School of the Environment, and University of California, Berkeley .


Featuring Tessa Hersh, Liz Gerger, Matthew S Starr & today’s special guest. 
Edited by Ian Arthure Sorrentino
Produced by Alec Plasker

Written by Aly O'Connor
Produced & Researched by Kate Downey



What is SpaceBus? An educational adventure podcast with a mission to launch kids to school, even if their desk is the kitchen table. This free remote learning resource helps parents & teachers start their kids’ school day by replacing the physical transition of a school bus ride with a wild audio journey. Kids board the SpaceBus every morning with new friends Laika, Albie and their SpaceBus Driver Gordy, plus real scientific experts. With mysterious riddles to solve, active episodes to get kids moving in the morning, and genuinely amazing scientific knowledge, SpaceBus gets the fuel burnin’ and their brains learnin’!


Sign up for the SpaceBus e-Blast to get  new episodes delivered to your inbox every school day: https://www.spacebuspodcast.com/
Or find SpaceBus Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! 

Why do trees lose their leaves? Urban Forester Georgia Silvera Seamans explores the unbe-leaf-able world of seasonal changes in trees! 
Georgia Silvera Seamans is the co-founding director of Washington Square Park Eco Projects in New York City where you can find her looking at plants and watching birds. She is an urban forester, independent researcher, and writer. She has bylines with Popular Science, Audubon.com, and UrbanOmnibus.net, and her research has been published in academic journals. She blogs about urban nature at www.localecologist.org. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University, the Yale School of the Environment, and University of California, Berkeley .


Featuring Tessa Hersh, Liz Gerger, Matthew S Starr & today’s special guest. 
Edited by Ian Arthure Sorrentino
Produced by Alec Plasker

Written by Aly O'Connor
Produced & Researched by Kate Downey



What is SpaceBus? An educational adventure podcast with a mission to launch kids to school, even if their desk is the kitchen table. This free remote learning resource helps parents & teachers start their kids’ school day by replacing the physical transition of a school bus ride with a wild audio journey. Kids board the SpaceBus every morning with new friends Laika, Albie and their SpaceBus Driver Gordy, plus real scientific experts. With mysterious riddles to solve, active episodes to get kids moving in the morning, and genuinely amazing scientific knowledge, SpaceBus gets the fuel burnin’ and their brains learnin’!


Sign up for the SpaceBus e-Blast to get  new episodes delivered to your inbox every school day: https://www.spacebuspodcast.com/
Or find SpaceBus Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! 

7 min

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