Climate Scientists

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 reach people who are turned off by the term ‘environmentalist’.

Evangelical Environmental Network: https://creationcare.org/

Jessica Moerman: https://twitter.com/jessica_moerman

Climate Scientists Podcast: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod

Transcript for Accessibility: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vafjJ74qTsBCmhQsN71w3pu5M_7nthOV/view?usp=sharing

Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert

Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones

Editing: Sian Williams Page

Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair

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:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091733

Chris and colleagues’ related 2021 paper:

https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1215/2021/tc-15-1215-2021-discussion.html

Chris’ twitter:

https://twitter.com/c2kittel

Climate Scientists Podcast twitter:

https://twitter.com/climatescipod

Transcript for accessiblity:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FvA4rZ5ut8ybV34vFPPdSN9KUlyrXH4H/view?usp=sharing

Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert

Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones

Editing: Sian Williams Page

Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair

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:
https://crd.lbl.gov/departments/computational-science/ccmc/staff/staff-members/michael-wehner/

Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oi_fxePQaUbGI6_QUQfmcyou4qta7-8qJUX2YvpVs8I/edit?usp=sharing

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:
https://www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/we-recommend/attractions/exposure-lives-at-sea

Follow the museum on twitter:
https://twitter.com/RMGreenwich

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

Josh Bregy joins me to discuss his experiences with ADHD in the Earth system sciences. Co-produced and co-hosted by Kaitlin Naughten.

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/

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:
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability/

Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan returns for part two of our chat

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 listen to the Sonya Legg episode. And for more on polynyas in climate models, go back to the Ethan Campbell episode.)

Computational mathematician Prof. Talea Mayo joins me to discuss hurricanes, storm surge modeling, coastal flooding, climate change, data assimilation, and her pathway into science. 

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.

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:

Episode produced by Dan Jones and Kaitlin Naughten 

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 science

A clip from my full conversation with Professor Scott Denning, available in a separate episode.

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. 

Our small attempt to normalise talking about the problem of racism. 

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

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.

PhD student Bella Rowell talks about her recent Antarctic fieldwork as part of the WACSWAIN project

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

More from Jonathan Lilly: learning from ocean observations | pathway into science

Meditation | Tools for building resilience | Oceanographer, dancer, and "artist in a scientist's body" Jonathan Lilly shares his personal practice.

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. 

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. 

The IPCC Coordinating Lead Author on the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).  

A very informal conversation with oceanographer Dave Munday

Mathematics lecturer Jan Zika on creativity in oceanography and his pathway into science. 

Lecturer Anna Harper on vegetation, climate change, and her pathway into science. 

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.

Professor Joellen Russell joins me to talk about her pathway into oceanography, the SOCCOM project, and life as a professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Arizona.

Tropospheric chemist Anna Jones joins me to talk about her pathway into science, the interplay between ice, snow, ocean, and climate in the polar regions, and her extensive Antarctic fieldwork. 

How is the field of climate science going to change in the future? Michael White joins me to discuss his role as climate science editor for Nature magazine, his pathway into science, and his continued pathway into publishing.  

What's it like to drill ice cores in Antarctica? Eric Wolff joins me to discuss ice cores and past climate, the ups and downs of fieldwork, and his pathway into science. 

How can scientists and science communicators be more engaging and effective when discussing climate change? Science communication expert Dr Sam Illingworth joins me to discuss the results of The Climate Communication Project (theclimatecommsproject.org).

Climate scientist / oceanographer Laure Zanna on how machine learning is changing her field, how the ocean redistributes heat and carbon under climate change, and her pathway into science.

International climate politics expert Joanna Depledge on the Paris agreement, global environmental negotiations, and the Climate Policy journal.

Atmospheric scientist and mathematician Michael McIntyre on clear and effective science communication, the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, and how science is driven by "model fitting". 

Oceanographer Emma Boland joins me to talk about Southern Ocean dynamics and her pathway into science. (with special guest host Ella Gilbert)

First episode! Dave Munday and I talk about his pathway into oceanography, dealing with uncertainty, and numerical modeling.