Simon Fraser University
Public university in Burnaby, British Columbiawww.sfu.ca
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Sep 11, 2026
Bob McDonaldHOST
[upbeat music] What ever happened to the Neanderthals when they went extinct 40,000 years ago? It might surprise you to find out we don't have a good answer for that question.
Bob McDonaldHOST
But there is a team of international archeologists trying to figure it out, including a geoarcheologist from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Bob McDonaldHOST
The researchers are casting a wide net across Eurasia from Iberia to Siberia to locations where Neanderthals were previously found to have lived.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Their goal is to piece together what ultimately led to the demise of our distant ancestors, the Neanderthals.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Dr. Francesco Berna is a geoarcheologist at Simon Fraser University and the University of Siena in Italy, where he's from.
Bob McDonaldHOST
He's been getting his hands dirty this summer, digging for clues in the search for the last Neanderthals in his home country of Italy, as well as in Uzbekistan and now in Kyrgyzstan.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Hello and welcome to our Summer Science Special.
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Francesco BernaGUEST
Thank you, Bob.
Madeline ReedHOST
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Sandra PhillipsGUEST
language and so I was like that's what I'm gonna do I worked with a professor at SFU on that thesis like that's what I'm gonna do when I'm when I'm here and then all the companies I didn't want to be at university though I wanted to be in a company and all the companies he gave me were somehow tied to the U.S. Army I was like, I don't want to work in that.
Sandra PhillipsGUEST
And then it became like, what am I going to do with all this experience that I have? And the city of Vancouver was all about the greenest city and projects came in and there was this random ad.
Sandra PhillipsGUEST
about a mobility project.
Mark JaccardGUEST
I'm Mark Jacard.
Mark JaccardGUEST
Um, I'm a professor, a distinguished professor at, uh, Simon Fraser University.
Mark JaccardGUEST
I'm an economist, energy economist in the School of Resource and Environmental Management.
Mark JaccardGUEST
Uh, but I'm currently, um, I'm still running a lab at the university, but I'm also chair and CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission w- for the last three years, which regulates energy utilities, mostly BC Hydro and Fortis Gas.
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Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
So at mcdonaldlaurier.ca, you can find our energy work, you can find my own individual work, and of course, I'm on, uh, X or Twitter as well, @xnerdpro.
Aaron PeteHOST
Mark.
Mark JaccardGUEST
In my case, just look for my name at Simon Fraser University, and we've got a blog up there and information and so on about, about the research group.
Mark JaccardGUEST
And Aaron, I just want to say, I actually thought you did a great job as moderator.
Janie ChangGUEST
Yeah.
Janie ChangGUEST
So in 2011, I took the Writer's Studio program from SFU.
Janie ChangGUEST
Oh, cool.
Janie ChangGUEST
Yep.
Dawson IsbisterGUEST
Uh, it's hard to pick an exact favorite activity because I mean, as I mentioned, I did the program last year and then I've also done it this year.
Dawson IsbisterGUEST
So there's, um, like 10 different ones to choose from and they do definitely vary like, you know, SFU tours to hospital tours to, um, you know, just like museums, right? They're very different experiences.
Dawson IsbisterGUEST
Um, but I definitely do think that my favorite one, and I mean, I hear the same sentiment from a lot of the other students, um, is the speed mentoring.
Dawson IsbisterGUEST
So I think last year it was maybe seven or eight people.
Joe KuchasloHOST
Some of the business classes, there's some with 300-400 students.
Joe KuchasloHOST
You're probably used to that on SFU.
Joe KuchasloHOST
I've never had to experience that.
Joe KuchasloHOST
I still have yet to experience that, but I've driven or not driven, walked past the...
Trish MandeboGUEST
I am very much pro-business and I've been on the entrepreneurship side for quite some time.
Trish MandeboGUEST
I'm on the board for SFU for the BD, not the BD, but the BD School of Business.
Trish MandeboGUEST
And with that, the strategies that we bring forward on how to help businesses And what we can do to support businesses, I would like for Coquitlam to look at attracting businesses so that we can increase our tax base.
Trish MandeboGUEST
And that will also allow for the community to not pay high taxes because we'll be increasing the base through taxation of businesses that will come into our community.
Rick DhaliwalHOST
He wants everything-
Ryan HendersonPANELIST
Well, remember SFU?
Rick DhaliwalHOST
He wants everybody to pay for it.
speaker_8UNKNOWN
Yeah.
Pam RaderHOST
So funny story.
Pam RaderHOST
I was taking geography and I'm in this big auditorium at Simon Fraser University.
Pam RaderHOST
And I was looking around and it's my first big exam.
Pam RaderHOST
It was a midterm exam.
Fiona WilsonGUEST
Absolutely not.
Fiona WilsonGUEST
In fact, fleecing was not on my to-do list until after I finished my undergrad degree at SFU.
Fiona WilsonGUEST
And I actually had a girlfriend who was going through the process with Vancouver, and she invited me to join her on the physical ability test.
Fiona WilsonGUEST
And at the time, I'm embarrassed to say because it wasn't that long ago.
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