Episode 66: Max Moritz
Max Moritz regales Mike with some of the many intricacies of modern fire science. The dominant narrative in the Western US might be “long-term fire su...
Forecast: climate conversations with Michael White
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Michael White has been Nature's editor for climate science since 2008. He ran Forecast for three years, in an effort to provide an inside view into climate science - and the amazing people doing climate science. Each interview documents one person's pathway to climate research, and a massively geeky discussion of his/her work.
Episode 77: Peter Bauer
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) is like excellent coffee in the Bay Area: so common that it is now taken for granted, obscuring the decades of expe...
Episode 76: Steve Running
Steve Running from the University of Montana helped to invent the field of large-area, quantitative ecology. Steve was also my MS and PhD advisor – a ...
Episode 75: Yao Tandong
Yao Tandong tells Mike about realizing his long-held dream: working of the Tibetan Plateau, now as director of the Institute for Tibetan Plateau (ITP)...
Episode 74: Belinda Medlyn
The land biosphere takes up a big chunk of atmospheric CO2 emissions. But how, where, and for how long remains an area of, ahem, active research. Or p...
Episode 73: Sergey Gulev
Sergey Gulev from Moscow State University grew up in the Soviet Union, forged a career as an oceanographer, and then witnessed the dissolution of much...
Episode 72: Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch is at the heart of many of the major advances in modern physical oceanography. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment, satellite altimetry...
Episode 71: Carolina Vera
Carolina Vera from the University of Buenos Aires tells Mike about her work on the South American monsoon. Relative to the Indian and Asian Monsoon, t...
Episode 70: Sarah Kang
Sarah Kang from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology tells Mike about her work to understand the atmospheric and oceanic dynamics th...
Episode 69: Jay Famiglietti
Jay Famiglietti from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tells Mike about taking the plunge into using the GRACE gravity-measuring satellites for hydrolo...