Podcasts about national climatic data center

Why is it so hard to communicate about Climate Change? What if the future depended on our  communicating about this better? Two experts in science communications, Susan Joy Hassol and Dr. Edward Maibach talk about how we communicate about climate change and how we might achieve more productive dialogue, today on Planet Watch Radio. Susan Hassol Susan Joy Hassol is a climate change communicator, analyst, and author known for her ability to translate science into English, making complex issues accessible to policymakers and the public for more than two decades.Susan was the Senior Science Writer on all three National Climate Assessments, authoritative reports written in plain language to better inform policymakers and the public about climate change and its effects on our nation. The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), was released in May 2014. She served two terms on the Board of Directors of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and has been a Visiting Scholar at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC, as well as at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. Among her recent publications is a February 2017 editorial in New Scientist written with Michael E. Mann, and a February 2017 Scientific American commentary entitled Climate Trumps Everything, also written with Dr. Mann. Her TED talk, ClimateTalk: Science and Solutions was published March 15, 2017. More about Susan and her work at ClimateCommunication.org Dr. Edward Maibach Edward Maibach – a Mason distinguished University Professor – is a communication scientist who is expert in the uses of strategic communication and social marketing to address climate change and related public health challenges. His research – funded by NSF, NASA and private foundations – focuses on public understanding of climate change and clean energy; the psychology underlying public engagement; and cultivating TV weathercasters, health professionals, and climate scientists as effective climate educators.Ed earned his PhD in communication science at Stanford University and his Masters in Public Health at San Diego State University. He currently serves as faculty at the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.

This week on SciTech Now North Carolina, see how hearing loss can become a risk factor for dementia. We take a look at the MURDOCK study, which tracks the health of North Carolinians for decades. See how the future of cancer treatment could be in precision strikes. Finally we chat with a futurist about visions for the tomorrow of technology.

This week on SciTech Now North Carolina, predicting the future! See how researchers are learning to predict where dangerous lightning strikes will happen. We visit the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville to learn about the patterns of climate. See how research in Antarctica can teach us about North Carolina's ocean. Finally we get deep into the science of sea level rise.

After an extreme winter of weather, it has been a challenging growing season for strawberry farmers. Learn how science is helping farmers grow their crops despite unusual winter weather.

Climatologists at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville analyze weather data to explain the unusual winter of 2013-2014 and to forecast how a warming planet will affect climate in the future.

After an extreme winter of weather, it has been a challenging growing season for strawberry farmers. Learn how science is helping farmers grow their crops despite unusual winter weather.

Climatologists at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville analyze weather data to explain the unusual winter of 2013-2014 and to forecast how a warming planet will affect climate in the future.

In a massive basement in downtown Asheville, millions of sheets of paper are shelved, row upon row, upon row – a place not unlike the warehouse where the Ark of the Covenant is stored in Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, instead of religious artifacts, these shelves contain centuries of weather data ranging from weather reports recorded at frontier forts, to Pacific weather data collected during World War Two to sheets filled out and submitted by farmers across America.

Beth Battaglino Cahill (Red Bank, NJ), Executive Director with The National Women's Health Resource Center, a non-profit organization, discusses the Dry Eye Hot Spots” fact sheet. Listed are the top 100 U.S. cities with environmental conditions most likely to aggravate dry eye. The rankings are based on data archived by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For additional information, please visit www.healthywomen.org. Second guest, Bob Fuhrmann (Wyoming), Education Director with Yellowstone National Park, discusses the park's magnificent Mammoth Hot Springs. A system of small fissures carries water upward to create approximately 50 hot springs in the Mammoth Hot Springs area. Several key ingredients combine to create the hot springs terraces: heat, water, limestone, and a rock fracture system (Part 2). For additional information, please visit www.nps.gov/yell.

Adapting to Climate Change – Impacts on Our Transportation Infrastructure The U.S. transportation system was built for the typical weather and climate experienced locally. Moderate changes in the mean climate have little impact on transportation. However, changes in weather and climate extremes can have considerable impact on transportation. Transportation relevant measures of extremes have been changing over the past several decades and are projected to continue to change in the future. Some of the changes are likely to have a positive impact on transportation and some negative. As the climate warms, cold temperature extremes are projected to continue to decrease. Milder winter conditions would likely improve the safety record for rail, air and ships. Warm extremes, on the other hand, are projected to increase. This change would likely increase the number of roadbed and railroad track bucklings and adversely impact maintenance work. As the cold season decreases and the warm season increases, northern transportation dependent upon ice roads and permanently frozen soil would be adversely affected while the projected commercial opening of the Northwest Passage would result in clear benefits to marine transportation. The warming would also produce a side benefit of shifting more of the precipitation from snow to rain. But not all precipitation changes are likely to be beneficial. Heavy precipitation events are projected to increase, which can cause local flooding. At the same time, summer drying in the interior of the continent is likely to contribute to low water levels in inland waterways. Strong mid-latitude storms are likely to become more frequent and hurricane rainfall and wind speeds are also likely increase in response to human-induced warming. Coastal transportation infrastructure is vulnerable to the combined effects of storm surge and global sea-level rise. Transportation planning operates on several different time scales. Road planners typically look out 25 years. Railroad planners consider 50 years. And bridges and underpasses are generally designed with 100 years in mind. In all cases, planning that takes likely changes into consideration will be important. Biography: Dr. Thomas C. Peterson is a research meteorologist at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. After earning his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 1991, Tom primarily engaged in creating NCDC’s global land surface data set used to quantify long-term global climate change. Key areas of his expertise include data archaeology, quality control, homogeneity testing, international data exchange and global climate analysis using both in situ and satellite data. He was a lead author on the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report. Currently he is a member of the Global Climate Observing System Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate, chairs the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology Open Programme Area Group on Monitoring and Analysis of Climate Variability and Change, and co-chairs the Unified Synthesis Product: Climate Change and the United States: Analysis of the Effects and Projections for the Future. The U.S. Department of Commerce has honored him with three Bronze Medal Awards and one Gold Medal Award. Essential Science Indicators has ranked him as one of the top 1% of scientists in the field of Geosciences based on Journal Citation Reports. He is the author or co-author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications and three data sets.