Pelecanus Deep Dives Episode 5: Healing the Ozone Hole

Welcome to Pelecanus Deep Dives, where we take a headline from a recent Pelecanus NEWS episode and take a deep dive, just like a pelican, into the article and try and explain some of the more technical, nuanced, or maybe complex ideas of the story to help us all better understand our world. In this episode, our host Harrison Parker, a CalTech doctoral Candidate in atmospheric sciences, explains a the January 15th, 2023 Pelecanus News episode about how the ozone layer is healing. Host for this episode is Harrison Parker, Producers are Harrison and Austin Parker. Music was provided by A Picture Book Studios Linked sources for images: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ozone-layer-slowly-healing-hole-mend-2066-96313492 https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/mario-molina https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/antarctic-ozone-hole-slightly-smaller-in-2022 https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/ozone-layer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/susan-solomon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Ozone_Mapping_Spectrometer#/media/File:Toms-2004-09-06-FULLDAY_GLOB.PNG https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/toms#launch-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Ozone_Mapping_Spectrometer