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Climate Scientists
by Dan(i) Jones
Informal conversations with climate-relevant researchers
Episodes
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Jon Robson • North Atlantic Climate
Jon Robson is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Reading. He joins us to discuss his work on the North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS) and several other research projects, parenthood and science, and his experiences of staying at one institution in his career to…
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Penny Holliday • Leadership in Physical Oceanography
Penny Holliday is Head of Marine Physics and Ocean Climate at the National Oceanography Centre. She joins us to discuss her research in physical oceanography, leadership in science, and the nature of short-term and long-term research contracts. You can follow Penny on Twitter @np_holliday Click...
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Alice Bell • History of the Climate Crisis
Alice Bell is the co-director of the climate change charity Possible. In July of this year, she will take on the new role of head and climate and health policy at Wellcome. We discuss Alice’s book Our Biggest Experiment, which is about the history of the climate crisis. You can follow Alice on...
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Christopher Jackson • A Life in Geology
Show notes Professor Christopher Jackson is a geologist and science communicator, currently serving as the Chair in Sustainable Geoscience at the University of Manchester. He joins us to discuss the H-index, prohibitively high journal fees and the Matthew effect. We also chat about his route into...
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Paul Behrens • Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Paul Behrens is an Assistant Professor in environmental change at Leiden University. In 2020, he published the book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science, which describes humanity’s possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and optimism.…
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Céline Heuzé • Polar science, mental health, and navigating academia
Céline Heuzé is a Senior Lecturer in climatology at the University of Gothenburg. She joins us to discuss the experiences in her life which led to her researching polar sciences and physical oceanography and her views on academia. You can follow Céline on Twitter @ClnHz. Transcript available here...
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Jessica Hernandez • Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
Jessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ & Binnizá) is a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest. She has an interdisciplinary academic background ranging from marine sciences to forestry. Jessica joins us to discuss her new book, Fresh Banana...
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Jessica Moerman • Geochemistry, policy, science & faith
Jessica Moerman is the Senior Director for Science and Policy at the Evangelical Environmental Network, based in Washington DC. After working as a researcher in isotope geochemistry, Jessica decided to move to a career in policy. She joins us to discuss her views on faith and science, and how to...
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Anna Palmer on "Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective"
Anna Palmer is the co-director of the 2021 film Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective. Anna and Dan discuss what it was like to make the documentary, as well as Anna’s career pathway. Details of screenings: https://www.inhabitantsfilm.com/ Climate Scientists Podcast:...
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Pragmatic optimism, dealing with negativity, and machine learning in climate science
Dan and Ella meet in the first of a new format of short climate catch-ups, which they will record alongside the normal interview format. These are short conversations where the two hosts discuss what they have been up to, and any interesting news or papers they have seen recently. This week, they...
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Tom Rossby • Ocean Acoustics
Professor Tom Rossby joins us to discuss his career in oceanography. Professor Tom Rossby: https://web.uri.edu/gso/meet/h-thomas-rossby/ Climate Scientists Podcast: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility: https://tinyurl.com/4zeh7452 Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music…
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Juliet Davenport • Great Green Questions
Juliet Davenport is the founder and former CEO of the British renewable electricity company Good Energy. She joins us to discuss her career and her new podcast ‘Great Green Questions’. Juliet Davenport: https://twitter.com/DavenportJuliet Climate Scientists Podcast:...
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Tom Slater • Remote sensing of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets
Tom Slater from the University of Leeds joins us to discuss remote sensing of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, the case for pragmatic climate optimism, and what it’s like to discover a love of science long after you’ve left school. Tom’s 2020 Nature Climate Change paper, ‘Ice-sheet losses...
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Valerie Small • Trees, Water & People
Dr Valerie Small is the National Program Director at the conservation nonprofit Trees, Water & People. She joins us to discuss her research on invasive species along the Little Bighorn and Bighorn River watersheds on the homelands of the Crow Tribe in Montana. Fourth National Climate Assessment,...
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Ella Gilbert and Chris Kittel • Surface melt, runoff, and Antarctic ice shelves
We are joined by Christoph Kittel from the University of Liège in Belgium to discuss Ella and Chris’ recent paper ‘Surface Melt and Runoff on Antarctic Ice Shelves at 1.5°C, 2°C, and 4°C of Future Warming’, published in Geophysical Research Letters. Ella and Chris’ paper:...
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The future of polar science • Artificial intelligence and new observations
Recorded as part of Cambridge Festival 2021. With Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert, Tom Andersson, and Kelly Hogan Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIe-tUFQgnquhRVT6ull64lRbW8JY-ig/view?usp=sharing
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Josh Bregy • Paleohurricanes, modern tropical cyclones, and pathway into science
Paleohurricanes, paleoclimatology, modern tropical cyclones, coastal geology, and Josh's pathway into science https://twitter.com/prehistormic
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Emily Matthews • Bioaerosols, a newly-discovered atmospheric compound, and the ACSIS project
Emily Matthews joins me to discuss bioaerosols, a newly-discovered compound (HPMTF), and the ACSIS project. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YBPb1OsPezexUJtNtuAPaWzg4T4wgjyd/view?usp=sharing Emily Matthews twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyMa02686449 HPMTF paper...
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Mika Tosca • The fire-smoke-climate connection • The synthesis of art and science
Dr. Tosca is a climate scientist, a humanist, an activist. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an affiliate climate researcher at JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in southern California. Her current research and public outreach explores the the...
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Michael Wehner • Hurricanes, climate change, and extreme weather
Michael F. Wehner, a senior scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, joins me to discuss hurricanes, climate change, extreme weather, and his pathway into science. More info here:...
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Disability in the Earth System Sciences (Part 4)
With contributions from: Krystal Vasquez (https://twitter.com/caffeinatedkrys) Rocío Caballero-Gill (https://twitter.com/CaballeroGill) Jon Robson (https://twitter.com/JonIRobson) Ed Doddridge (https://twitter.com/edoddridge) Co-produced by Kaitlin Naughten and Dan Jones
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Simon Donner • Coral reefs under climate change, adaptation in the developing world
https://simondonner.com/ https://twitter.com/simondonner Transcript available here
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Exposure: Lives at Sea | an exhibit at the Royal Museums Greenwich
Laura Boon, who works as the Lloyd's Register Foundation Public Curator: Contemporary Maritime at Royal Museums Greenwich in London, joins me to discuss the upcoming photography exhibit called "Exposure: Lives at Sea", which features photographs my maritime professionals. For more information:...
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Dan Chavas: tropical cyclones, exoplanet hurricanes, and his pathway into research
Dan Chavas joins me to discuss virtual conferences, his YouTube outreach work, tropical cyclones, his interactions with the exoplanet research community and hurricanes exist on other planets, creativity in science, and his pathway into research
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Disability in the Earth System Sciences (Part 3): Josh Bregy on ADHD
Josh Bregy joins me to discuss his experiences with ADHD in the Earth system sciences. Co-produced and co-hosted by Kaitlin Naughten.
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Katharine Hayhoe: researching, communicating, and teaching climate change and climate justice
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe joins me to discuss teaching climate justice, recent developments in climate change communication, her new book projects, and her pathway into science. For more: http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/wp2016/
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John Sterman: informed decision-making for climate change policy
Prof. John Sterman joins me to discuss tools for informed decision-making for climate change policy. For more info, visit Climate Interactive: https://www.climateinteractive.org/ Including the "en-roads" climate simulator: http://en-roads.org/ More info:...
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Anand Gnanadesikan (Pt. 2 of 2): his pathway and life in science
Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan returns for part two of our chat
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Anand Gnanadesikan (Pt. 1 of 2): oceanic oxygen, mixing, and polynyas (giant holes in Antarctic sea ice) in climate models
Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan joins me to discuss the sensitivity of oceanic oxygen to changes in atmospheric oxygen (specifically, the linear versus nonlinear components of this response), convection in climate models, and polynyas in climate models. (For more on mixing in climate models, go back and...
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Talea Mayo: Hurricanes, Coastal Flooding, and Data Assimilation
Computational mathematician Prof. Talea Mayo joins me to discuss hurricanes, storm surge modeling, coastal flooding, climate change, data assimilation, and her pathway into science.
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Disability in the Earth System Sciences (Part 2): Anita Marshall on Mobility-Related Disabilities
Dr Anita Marshall on mobility-related disabilities and her role in The International Association for Geoscience Diversity (theIAGD.org), a non-profit dedicated to creating access and inclusion for students, faculty, and professionals with disabilities in the geosciences.
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Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth
Meteorologist, climate journalist, and writer Eric Holthaus talks about his new book, titled "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming". We discuss the role of imagination and mutual care in addressing the climate crisis. The new book is available here:...
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Disability in the Earth System Sciences (Part 1): Kaitlin Naughten on Stammering / Stuttering
In the first of this series on Earth System scientists with disabilities, oceanographer Kaitlin Naughten talks about her experience with stammering (a.k.a. stuttering). We talk about a number of topics, including: What is a disability? In particular, what is stammering / stuttering? How does...
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Scott Denning: Semester at Sea | The Global Carbon Cycle | From Geology to Atmospheric Science
Professor Scott Denning from the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University joins me to talk about his semester teaching at sea, his research career working on the global carbon cycle (especially the atmospheric and land portions), and his pathway from geology into atmospheric...
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SHORTS: Climate change is simple, serious, and solvable
A clip from my full conversation with Professor Scott Denning, available in a separate episode.
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Michael Mann: The New Climate War
The climate scientist and author joins me to discuss (1) his forthcoming book, The New Climate War, (2) the changing culture surrounding scientists and public and political engagement, and (3) social media use as a public scientist, among other topics.
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Lauren Biermann: Difficult Conversations About Racism
Our small attempt to normalise talking about the problem of racism.
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Rachel McCrary: Downscaling | Precipitation | Mental Health
Project scientist Rachel McCrary on statistical and dynamical downscaling techniques for studying how climate change affects precipitation and snowpack over North America | Her pathway into science | Our experiences with mental health in the geosciences
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Sonya Legg: Ocean Mixing, Circulation, and Climate
Oceanographer Sonya Legg joins me to discuss waves, mixing, and how she helps incorporate small-scale processes into large-scale climate models. We also discuss her role in the MPOWIR mentoring network and her pathway into science.
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Bella Rowell: Antarctic Fieldwork and Ancient Ice
PhD student Bella Rowell talks about her recent Antarctic fieldwork as part of the WACSWAIN project
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Milan Klöwer: the Julia programming language | posits | virtual conferences
University of Oxford PhD student Milan Klöwer on virtual conferences, the emerging Julia programming language, and "posits", an efficient way to represent numbers in computational models
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Jonathan Lilly (Part 2 of 2): Building Understanding from Ocean Observations
More from Jonathan Lilly: learning from ocean observations | pathway into science
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Jonathan Lilly (Part 1 of 2): Meditation for Scientists
Meditation | Tools for building resilience | Oceanographer, dancer, and "artist in a scientist's body" Jonathan Lilly shares his personal practice.
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Susan Lozier: North Atlantic Heat Transport
North Atlantic heat transport! Leadership! The future of online conferences! Physical oceanographer and president-elect of the American Geophysical Union Susan Lozier joins me to discuss these topics and more.
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Elizabeth Barnes: Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science
Atmospheric scientist Elizabeth Barnes (a.k.a. Libby Barnes) talks about how she uses artificial intelligence to better understand atmospheric and climate dynamics. We also discuss leadership/mentoring and her pathway into science.
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Mike Meredith: Communicating Science (IPCC SROCC)
The IPCC Coordinating Lead Author on the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).
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Dave Munday Returns
A very informal conversation with oceanographer Dave Munday
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Jan Zika: Creativity in Oceanography
Mathematics lecturer Jan Zika on creativity in oceanography and his pathway into science.
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Anna Harper: the Land Carbon Cycle
Lecturer Anna Harper on vegetation, climate change, and her pathway into science.
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Ethan Campbell: Giant Holes in the Sea Ice (Polynyas)
Physical oceanography PhD student Ethan Campbell joins me to discuss enormous holes in Antarctic sea ice, his recent Nature article on the topic, and (briefly) his pathway into science.
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