Geo (Gio) Rutherford

I go by Gio Rutherford, even though technically my name is Georgina because my mom is a geologist with a bad sense of humor.

But I've always gone by Gio.

And so Gio Rutherford, and I use she, her pronouns.

Yeah.

Yeah, she was she has a PhD in geology.

And so yeah, she's I was I very much grew up with like earth science in like every facet of my life.

Yeah, technically I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where I think we only really had reservoirs.

I moved then later to Wisconsin, but Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, all those states that just have so many lakes.

A reservoir is a man-made created body of water.

So it's like a dam put on a river, which then creates like this, like they always look like spiny bushes from the space where they're just like these.

And I love them like Lake Powell and Lake Mead are some of my favorite lakes.

They're just so weird looking from space and in person.

And so, yeah, that's a reservoir is just a man-made lake.

Yeah, it's like there's no formal like universal definition for a pond.

I think that if you wanted to clarify, then if sunlight reaches the bottom and it's like really... But you could state that about the Great Salt Lake because the Great Salt Lake is like very shallow.

I think it's like maximum 20 feet, maybe three feet average.

Yeah, it's like this crazy shallow lake.

And so you could argue that it could be a pond by that definition.

But then the second kind of qualifier is that it's usually pretty small.

And so it's like a small body of water where the sunlight reaches the bottom is usually kind of more considered a pond.