Oceanography, Heat Domes, and Getting "Stranded" at Sea with Dr. Larry O'Neill

Share your Field Stories!Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Larry O’Neill, Associate professor with Oregon State University and Oregon State Climatologist, about Oceanography, Heat Domes, and Getting "Stranded" at Sea.   Read his full bio below.Help us continue to create great content! If you’d like to sponsor a future episode hit the support podcast button or visit www.environmentalprofessionalsradio.com/sponsor-form Showtimes: 3:06  Nic & Laura talk about Changing Careers in your 30s13:59  Interview with Larry O'Neill Starts16:25  Oceanography24:59  Heat Domes39:16  Getting "Stranded" at Sea Please be sure to ✔️subscribe, ⭐rate, and ✍review.  This podcast is produced by the National Association of Environmental Professions (NAEP). Check out all the NAEP has to offer at NAEP.org.Guest Bio:Since he was very young, Larry always knew that he wanted to work in weather, other than that time in fourth grade where he toyed with the idea of becoming the governor of Arizona. His fascination with weather came about when he born in South Dakota, a state which basically gets every type of weather except for tropical storms; the weather also changed a lot and quickly, which annoys many but added to the mystery. After high school, Larry went to community college in California and transferred to the atmospheric science program at the Univ. of California at Davis. There he hit a bit of indecision whether he wanted to forecast or do research. He heard there were those who studied how weather and ocean interacts, and immediately had this romantic notion of setting up instruments on some warm tropical beach drinking Mai Tai's. As an undergraduate, Larry did a research program at the University of Hawaii which hooked him on the topic. For many reasons, he chose to go to graduate school at Oregon State Univ. His thesis work unfortunately did not have anything to do with long stretches of time on warm tropical beaches. The thesis project mainly dealt with using new sets of satellites to characterize how the ocean affects the weather and vice versa. Larry worked with the Navy for some time after graduate school at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA. He was fortunate there to be working with a group on essentially pure research projects with some interactions on their operational weather forecasting systems and their use of satellite observations. He wanted to teach and advise students, so decided to return to Oregon State Univ as a faculty member. Since then, Larry has expanded his research and outreach focus, which includes activities as State Climatologist of Oregon and the Director of Oregon Climate Service. Music CreditsIntro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace MesaOutro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs MullerSupport the showThanks for listening! A new episode drops every Friday. Like, share, subscribe, and/or sponsor to help support the continuation of the show. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all your favorite podcast players.