Hannah Etchells is a Botany PhD candidate from The University of Western Australia. She currently operates between the UWA campus and the great bushland of South West Australia and investigates nature’s response to wildfires. Throughout the discussion with Hannah you will learn about the field of fire ecology, how smoke can cause seeds to germinate and how fungi are essential to the reconstruction of an ecosystem after a wildfire. We also discuss the sciart movement. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to us, rate & review our show. It really does help. If you would like to feature upon an upcoming episode of Vaguely Accurate please get in contact with us via [email protected] or submit a form upon our website: http://vaguelyaccurate.com Twitter: @hannah_etchells http://acepodcasts.com  Ace Podcast Network