Podcasts about geophysical sciences

In this week's episode, David is joined by Edwin Kite, Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Prof Kite is a Participating Scientist for the NASA Curiosity Rover and has devoted much of his career to the study of Mars' evolution and fate. To support this podcast and our research lab, head to https://coolworldslab.com/support Cool Worlds Podcast Theme by Hill [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1hdkvBtRdOW4SPsnxCXOjK]

Professor Fred Ciesla from the Department of Geophysical Sciences is on The Course this week to share how his career path to becoming a geophysical sciences professor started when he was a child. He was inspired to study astronomy after seeing stars, in particular Venus, glowing in the night sky. His path led him to Cornell, NASA, and finally to UChicago, where he met various important mentors along the way and worked on various research questions. Tune in to hear Professor Ciesla's sharing and his curiosity about whether there is life elsewhere.  

How can we incentivize the private and public sectors to develop and deploy solutions to climate change, while accounting for uncertainties? This episode of The Pie covers a panel discussion among professors David Keith of the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at UChicago, Franklin Allen of Imperial College in London, and José Scheinkman of Columbia. Lars Peter Hansen, The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the Booth School of Business and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, moderates.

David Keith is a Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and the Founding Faculty Director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative. Keith previously led the development of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.In this episode, we discuss Keith's Climate Systems Engineering initiatives, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and geoengineering techniques. Drawing on David's decades of expertise, we dive deep into topics such as CDR, solar geoengineering, ice sheet geoengineering.Links:David Keith's profile (& old profile)The Climate Systems Engineering initiativeSupport the showSubscribe for email updates

In 2021, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) canceled a high-profile lecture by Dr. Dorian Abbot, a renowned geophysicist from the University of Chicago. The topic of the lecture was not the issue. Rather, Dorian was targeted by Social Justice activists because of his critique of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) ideology. MIT buckled to the demands of a handful of ideologues, inadvertently contributing to discussions about academic censorship. MIT did not expect the blowback it received for hobbling scientific inquiry in favor of ideological conformity. MIT alumni formed the Free Speech Alliance and its faculty overwhelmingly voted to adopt a university statement regarding freedom of expression. Since then, Dorian has become a leading figure in the fight for academic freedom of thought, speech, and inquiry. In this conversation, Peter Boghossian and Dorian discuss the MIT fiasco, the proper aim of academia, the immorality of DEI, speech as “violence,” University of Chicago's commitment to academic freedom, finding meaning through religion and naturalism, Dorian's rejection of tyrannical “equality” mandates, and much more. Dorian Abbot is associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He has written more than 90 scientific papers on the climates of Earth and other planets. He is a member of the Council of the Faculty Senate, a co-founder of the faculty group U-Chicago Free, a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, and a co-founder and moderator of the Heterodox Academy STEM Community.  Dorian won the 2021 “Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award” from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the 2022 “Courage Award” from the Heterodox Academy.Read the MIT Freedom of Expression & Academic Freedom statement.Watch this episode on YouTube. 

This week Beth and Andrew speak with geophysicist Dorian Abbot, an outspoken activist for academic freedom. Abbot discusses his views on the state of free speech and academic freedom in elite universities in the United States and talks about his own high profile experience of being cancelled from a speech he was supposed to give at MIT because of his outspoken activism against the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) regime.Abbot also shares his scientific views on climate change and whether there is life on other planets. Dorian Abbot is an associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.Dorian is also a member of the Council of the Faculty Senate at the University of Chicago, a co-founder of the faculty group UChicago Free, a foundingmember of the Academic Freedom Alliance, and a co-founder and moderator of The Heterodox Academy STEM Community (HxSTEM). He has written and spoken publicly extensively on issues related to academic freedom and was awarded the 2021 Hero of Intellectual FreedomAward by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the 2022 Courage Award by the Heterodox Academy.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5817303/advertisement

Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but rescinded the invitation after receiving complaints about an article Abbot had written for Newsweek, titled "The Diversity Problem on Campus." In response, Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions invited Abbot to speak at the James Madison Program. He'll do so live on Zoom on October 21st, at 4:30 PM ET. Abbot joins the podcast to discuss MIT's capitulation, academic freedom in the hard sciences, and more. Abbot's essay "The Diversity Problem on Campus" is here. Abbot's article "MIT Abandon's its Mission. And Me" is here.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but rescinded the invitation after receiving complaints about an article Abbot had written for Newsweek, titled "The Diversity Problem on Campus." In response, Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions invited Abbot to speak at the James Madison Program. He'll do so live on Zoom on October 21st, at 4:30 PM ET. Abbot joins the podcast to discuss MIT's capitulation, academic freedom in the hard sciences, and more. Abbot's essay "The Diversity Problem on Campus" is here. Abbot's article "MIT Abandon's its Mission. And Me" is here.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but rescinded the invitation after receiving complaints about an article Abbot had written for Newsweek, titled "The Diversity Problem on Campus." In response, Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions invited Abbot to speak at the James Madison Program. He'll do so live on Zoom on October 21st, at 4:30 PM ET. Abbot joins the podcast to discuss MIT's capitulation, academic freedom in the hard sciences, and more. Abbot's essay "The Diversity Problem on Campus" is here. Abbot's article "MIT Abandon's its Mission. And Me" is here.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

In October 2022, ACTA's ATHENA Roundtable Conference in Washington, DC was highlighted by two panels featuring extraordinary higher education thought leaders. Today we present the first of those panels – headlined as DIVERSITY DONE RIGHT, and hosted by our good friend Jonathan Rauch – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Joining Jonathan are panelists Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University; John Chisholm, former member of the MIT Corporation; Dorian Abbot, Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago; and Amna Khalid, Associate Professor of History, Carleton College. Together, they drill into the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on higher education, discussing how this trend has had an outsized influence on the courses that universities teach, the professors they hire, and the shared understanding of our nation's history.

Dr. Judith Curry is President and co-founder of CFAN. Following an influential career in academic research and administration, Curry founded CFAN to support the management of weather and climate risk. She is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she served as Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years. Curry is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. She is frequently called upon to give Congressional testimony and serve as an expert witness on matters related to weather and climate. Curry received a Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. Slides from this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/climate-uncertainty-and-risk https://www.cfanclimate.net/ https://twitter.com/curryja Curry on BizNews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdmppcfixM Curry's Jordan Peterson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2YHGIlUDk Curry on the Robert Bryce podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3dEGoFnvYM Tables turned: Scientist Judith Curry and Author Mark Steyn question, school Sen Markey on climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6zDbWMuP0 New book by Judith Curry: Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Anthem Press, 256 pages (in press; publication date June 6, 2023) https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Uncertainty-Risk-Environment-Sustainability/dp/1785278169/ref=sr_1_1 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

She has her Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, the president of Climate Forecast Applications Network & formerly a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Assistant Professor Sunyoung Park, from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, researches a wide range of topics in seismology, including deep earthquakes and the development of novel approaches to studying the earth's internal processes. Professor Park talks about how she discovered her interest, her childhood in Korea, and her career path to becoming a University of Chicago professor.

Associate Professor Tiffany Shaw, from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, explains how her high school teacher inspired her to pursue maths and physics, and eventually found her research interest in atmosphere and climate change. Professor Shaw reflected on her career path to becoming a University of Chicago professor and shared tips with those who are interested in solving problems using physics and maths as tools.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Steve Brusatte about the rise and fall of dinosaurs and the rise and reign of mammals. They discuss how his two books are connected and overlap, first dinosaurs, and how dinosaurs survived the great dying and diversified. They talk about the taxonomy of dinosaurs, the T. Rex, and dinosaurs connection with birds. They also discuss what makes a mammal a mammal, importance of the jaw, and how mammals coexisted with dinosaurs. They also mention how mammals survived the asteroid, their proliferation, humans, and the future of mammals.  Steve Brusatte is a Palaeontologist who has a Bachelors in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, a Masters in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, and a PhD in Earth and Environmental Studies from the Columbia University, New York. He has over 150 peer-reviewed studies published and has discovered over a dozen dinosaur and mammal species. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and his latest book, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. He has also been a lead consultant on BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Planet, and Jurassic World: Dominion. You can find his work here. Twitter: @stevebrusatte

Higher Ed Now delves into issues of merit, fairness and equality, academic freedom, and more with Dorian Abbot, associate professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. It's now well known that Dr. Abbot was invited last year to give the prestigious Carlson Lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology—and then, in September, he was disinvited by MIT after a group of activists launched an online cancellation campaign against him. This conversation between Dr. Abbot and ACTA's Michael Poliakoff took place in Washington DC on the same day that Dr. Abbot received our Hero of Intellectual Freedom award.

Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but rescinded the invitation after receiving complaints about an article Abbot had written for Newsweek, titled “The Diversity Problem on Campus.” In response, Princeton University’s James […]

Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but rescinded the invitation after receiving complaints about an article Abbot had written for Newsweek, titled "The Diversity Problem on Campus." In response, Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions invited Abbot to speak at the James Madison Program. He'll do so live on Zoom on October 21st, at 4:30 PM ET. Abbot joins the podcast to discuss MIT's capitulation, academic freedom in the hard sciences, and more.   Register for Abbot's Lecture at the James Madison Program: https://jmp.princeton.edu/events/climate-and-potential-life-other-planets    The Diversity Problem on Campus: https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-1618419    Dorian Abbot for Bari Weiss' "Common Sense": https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me     

Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. At age 31, Steve is widely recognized as one of the leading palaeontologists of his generation. He has written nearly 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers during his decade of research in the field, discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs, and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs rose to dominance and went extinct. Steve is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. During the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division Diploma and Hooding Ceremony on June 13, 2015, graduates from Chemistry, Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics, and Statistics received their MS and PhD degrees. Faculty members Andrew Campbell and Angela Olinto were honored with the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and Robert Fefferman and Robert Wald were honored with the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Service.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. During the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division Diploma and Hooding Ceremony on June 13, 2015, graduates from Chemistry, Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics, and Statistics received their MS and PhD degrees. Faculty members Andrew Campbell and Angela Olinto were honored with the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and Robert Fefferman and Robert Wald were honored with the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Service.

Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn spoke with Sora Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago who led a study on what shark teeth fossils can tell us about climate adaptation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. During the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division Diploma and Hooding Ceremony on June 14, 2014, graduates from Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biophysical Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics, and Statistics received their MS and PhD degrees. Faculty members Michael D. Hopkins and Anne Rogers were also honored with the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Service.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Physical Sciences 13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, goes international as a free massive open online course, or MOOC, this fall on coursera.org. This course, which has been taught since 1995 and became the most popular class in the University of Chicago catalog, has a long history of outreach toward the education of students and others outside of the University. Professor David Archer will examine online education through the progression of PHSC 13400—first using online interactive models, then videotapes of classroom lectures, followed by a home-grown MOOC called Open Climate 101, which combined the video lectures, quizzes from old exam questions, and exercises using the interactive models. This summer, with the help of a team of videographers, Archer taped about 50 five-minute video clips that encompass the material in the class. Interestingly, he was able to cover the material in one-third the number of minutes as it took in the 45-minute traditional format. Archer will talk about the content of the class and share some of the undoubtedly delightful experiences of running a class that has on the order of 10,000 students. David Archer is a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, publishing on Earth’s carbon cycle and its interaction with global climate. Archer has written a series of books on climate change; teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global biogeochemical cycles; and is a regular contributor to the climate science blog site realclimate.org.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. During the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division Diploma and Hooding Ceremony on June 15, 2013, graduates from Chemistry, Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics, and Statistics received their MS and PhD degrees. Faculty members Ka Yee Lee and John Frederick were also honored with the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Outstanding Service.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Michael Hogue, Assistant Professor of Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary in Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Audio: John Frederick, University of Chicago Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses the economics of recycling (55 seconds).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Pamela Martin, Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences, and her students discuss her Feeding the City research project, which investigates small-scale sustainable agriculture. The goal of the project, now in its pilot year, is to collect data on the direct and indirect energy inputs and outputs. Martin and her team will analyze this data to determine the energy efficiency and environmental impact of food production on urban and rural farms that practice sustainable methods.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Pamela Martin, Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences, and her students discuss her Feeding the City research project, which investigates small-scale sustainable agriculture. The goal of the project, now in its pilot year, is to collect data on the direct and indirect energy inputs and outputs. Martin and her team will analyze this data to determine the energy efficiency and environmental impact of food production on urban and rural farms that practice sustainable methods.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems.By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can perform what is called a live-dead analysis. Large discrepancies in the ratio of living and dead organisms correlate with radical changes in the ecosystem.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Earth Week 2009 culminated Friday, April 24 on the Main Quadrangle with EarthFest, an outdoor party with music, organic food, and information about what students and community members are doing to green up their lives.Registered Student Organizations and community groups set up tables with information and freebies to raise awareness about sustainability practices, and to spark conversation and new ideas.In April, the Office of Sustainability launched Sustainable Actions for a Greener Environment, a new campus-wide initiative to offer SAGE advice for how to be both green and smart in making everyday choices. Students manned a table for the office and shared some of their ideas.Earth Week 2009 offered workshops and lectures on raising worms for composting, growing culinary herbs, issues in urban agriculture, the environment in United States law, and sustainable urbanism and green buildings. Speakers included Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the City of Chicago; Doug Farr of Farr Associates, which specializes in construction of LEED-certified buildings; Esther Bowen, a graduate student in Geophysical Sciences and teaching assistant for the course. Feeding the City; and Cecelia Ungari, Director of Education and Outreach at Healthy Green Goods.A collaborative effort among the Office of Sustainability, the University Sustainability Council, the University Medical Center, the Green Campus Initiative, the Program on the Global Environment, the College, the Civic Knowledge Project, and several student organizations, Earth Week 2009 helped students think about their role in promoting sustainability.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems.By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can perform what is called a live-dead analysis. Large discrepancies in the ratio of living and dead organisms correlate with radical changes in the ecosystem.