

Climate Scientists
Dan(i) Jones
Informal conversations with climate-relevant researchers
Episodes
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Aug 8, 2021 • 1h 45min
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 and Cover Art: Dan Jones
Editing: Sian Williams Page
Audio Engineering: Lilian Blair

Jul 25, 2021 • 55min
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: 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

Jul 11, 2021 • 1h 37min
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 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

Jun 27, 2021 • 1h 38min
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, 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

Jun 13, 2021 • 1h 16min
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:
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

May 9, 2021 • 1h 56min
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

Apr 24, 2021 • 1h 49min
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

Apr 4, 2021 • 1h 34min
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
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

Mar 21, 2021 • 1h 27min
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 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

Mar 7, 2021 • 1h 5min
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:
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