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 date. Transcript available here You can follow Jon on Twitter @JonIRobson Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair Follow us on Twitter at @ClimateSciPod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 here for transcript Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair Follow us on Twitter at @ClimateSciPod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 Twitter @alicebell Transcript available here Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair Follow us on Twitter at @ClimateSciPod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 science and some of his current research interests. You can follow Chris on Twitter @seis_matters Transcript available here Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair Follow us on Twitter at @ClimateSciPod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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. Paul’s book is available to buy: https://theindigopress.com/product/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times-bundle/ Links to other things mentioned in our discussion: Paul and colleagues’ new paper on the climate impact of dietary change in Nature Food: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00431-5 Should dogs and cats go vegan? A talk from Professor Andrew Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxjGa0MXfAc Paul is on Twitter @DrPaulBehrens Click here for transcript Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 Hosts: Dan(i) Jones and Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair Follow us on Twitter at @ClimateSciPod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, her father’s childhood in Central America, her pathway into science, and her views on western conservation practices. Jessica’s website, which includes details of where to buy Fresh Banana Leaves: www.jessicabhernandez.com Follow Jessica on Twitter @doctora_nature Climate Scientists Podcast: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility available Hosts: Dan(i) Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan(i) Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPTGPKl0pPo6zOYioR73jBOObTYo-EoZ/view?usp=sharing Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 discuss: Ella’s first ever trip to a fashion show and the simplicity of Ed Hawkins’ climate stripes Katharine Hayhoe’s new book Saving Us and climate optimism vs. climate pragmatism Dan and Ella’s thoughts on Twitter and how they approach receiving negative comments there Ella’s YouTube videos about responding to climate deniers The need for physical understanding when applying statistical techniques to environmental datasets Dan’s new review paper on machine learning and oceanography, led by Maike Sonnewald, in Environmental Research Letters A recent climate education summit organised by the University of Reading, and chaired by Ella. Climate Scientists Podcast: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1up4Ev2zAd000w56nrIhBasbiXo9QrL5j/view?usp=sharing Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility: https://tinyurl.com/3yjndhns Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 track high-end sea-level rise projections’: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0893-y Tom’s twitter: https://twitter.com/_tslater?lang=en Climate Scientists Podcast twitter: https://twitter.com/ClimateSciPod Transcript for Accessibility: https://tinyurl.com/tom-slater-transcript Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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, Chapter 22, Northern Great Plains: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/22/ Valerie’s twitter: https://twitter.com/drsmallv Trees, Water, & People: https://treeswaterpeople.org/ Climate Scientists Podcast twitter: https://twitter.com/climatescipod Transcript for accessibility: https://tinyurl.com/8f2a32bb Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
Paleohurricanes, paleoclimatology, modern tropical cyclones, coastal geology, and Josh's pathway into science https://twitter.com/prehistormic --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4505 ACSIS project: http://www.acsis.ac.uk/ Hosts: Dan Jones, Ella Gilbert Music and Cover Art: Dan Jones Editing: Sian Williams Page Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 synthesis of art and climate science and posits that engaging with artists, designers, and makers is instrumental to solving the climate crisis. Mika is an out and proud transgender scientist (she/her pronouns) and a vocal advocate for the queer and trans communities in Chicago and beyond. Her recent work: http://micktosca.com/work Follow her on twitter: https://twitter.com/trans_icon_mika --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climate-scientists/message
Beth Titchiner
Great podcast! I love your attitude, honesty and lack of pretention Dan. As a wannabe scientist I am really enjoying this 🤓🤓🤓