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Fluid Flow, Odor, And Dogs with Dr. Lindsay Waldrop (pt. 2)
What to listen for: “We are very good at selectively breeding, obviously to drive change in the shape, but not necessarily to drive performance.” Robin and Stacy continue their conversation with Dr. Lindsay Waldrop, a Chapman University fluid dynamicist who secured Navy funding to build the world's largest collection of micro-CT-scanned domestic dog skulls. Dr. Waldrop discusses why skull morphology offers no reliable prediction of scent detection performance. Breed shape, mu
Jun 30


Talking Odor Movement and Crab Sniffing with Dr. Lindsay Waldrop (pt. 1)
What to listen for: “We're such dumb visual monkeys. We can't process information any other way except for visuals; whereas the dogs have their brain structured around scent.” Dr. Lindsay Waldrop, a Chapman University fluid dynamicist whose dissertation explored how crabs sniff odor out of water, has spent recent years turning that expertise toward dogs. Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, chat all things scent with her in this episode of K9 Detection Collaborative. H
Jun 18
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