Talking Climate
The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy
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Conversations about transformative research happening in the fields of climate science and policy at University of Utah.
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S3E35 35: Wastewater Treatment Could be a Solution for Cleaner, More Efficient Fertilizer
Episode Intro:A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with Margaret Lumley who is co-founder and CEO of a small startup called Roca Water. Roca was one of the top runners up for our Wilkes Climate…
S3E34 34: Climate Change Should Be Funnier. Seriously.
Episode Intro:The topic we’re exploring in this episode is climate change and humor. Can climate change be funny? To explore this question, I had the chance to speak with Sara Yeo, a professor in the…
S3E33 33: How Utahns Could Support a Tax on Carbon Emissions
Episode Intro:A couple years ago, a Utah statewide ballot initiative called Clean the Darn Air was proposed to tackle the persistent air pollution which Wasatch Front residents deal with every year. …
S3E32 32: Could Lab-generated Lactoferrin Be Healthier, Cheaper, and Better for the Planet?
Episode Intro:One of the two runners up for the Wilkes Center Climate Launch Prize this past year is De Novo Foodlabs, a startup with operations in North Carolina and Cape Town, South Africa, which…
S3E31 31: Deciphering How Methane-Eating Bacteria Thrive
Episode Intro:Ross Chambless: Many believe that chemistry is foundational to understanding and solving environmental challenges. And when it comes to solving a pernicious global environmental problem…
S3E30 30: How Cheaper, Safer, and Cleaner Bricks Could Revolutionize Homebuilding Across Asia
Episode Intro:Ross Chambless: In September 2025, the Wilkes Center awarded its annual Wilkes Climate Launch Prize to the organization Build up Nepal.Build up Nepal has developed a new approach to…
S2E29 29: How Are Plant Ecosystems Adapting to the Shifting Climate?
When it comes to climate change, one big question is how are ecosystems adapting to shifting weather patterns, heavier precipitation events, and hotter temperatures for longer periods of time? Are…
S2E28 28: Conversation with the Water Resources Hackathon 1st Place Team "SmartFLOW"
The Wilkes Center recently hosted its 3rd annual climate solutions hackathon at the end of January. This year the focus was water resources. The “hackathon” as we’ve come to call it – borrowing the…
S2E27 27: Could Low-dimensional Perovskites Advance Cleaner Refrigerants and Batteries?
Perovskites are crystal structures that can be manufactured in labs for making solar panels. They are relatively cost-effective, and efficient, and could provide a reliable thin-film alternative to…
S2E26 26: Sizing Up the Melting Glaciers of the Himalayas
There are an estimated 54,000 glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. These glaciers cover 60,000 square kilometers and serve as a major source of the water in the region’s rivers, including as much as…
S2E25 25: Climate Sherlocking: Turning Up Clues from Past Global Warming Events
It’s true the Earth has experienced periods of global warming in its past. The largest such warming event in the past 90 million years - since the time dinosaurs roamed Earth - was the…
S2E24 24: Climate Anxiety Prevalence at the U
"Eco-anxiety" or "Climate grief" are increasingly part of our lexicon when it comes to describing the heavy feelings of concern people are feeling about the state of our natural environment and…
S2E23 23: Monitoring Forests as they Change
Dr. Jon Wang, an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences here at the U, manages the Dynamic Carbon and Ecosystems Lab, or DYCE Lab. He has access to high-resolution airborne laser…
S2E22 22: Interview with Applied Carbon – the 2024 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize Winner
In September this year, the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy awarded Applied Carbon, the climate tech company based in Houston, Texas, the $500,000 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize.Applied…
S1E21 21: Coexisting with Wildlife in a Changing Climate
Austin Green is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology with the College of Science’s Science Research Initiative, or SRI program. His specialty is using camera traps to monitor and…
S1E20 20: Mapping the Infestation of Balsam Woolly Adelgid in Utah Forests
If you’ve taken a hike or a drive through northern Utah’s forests recently, you may have noticed that some areas of the forests are changing and looking a little sick. Northern Utah’s forests are…
S1E19 19: The Significance of Ancient Roman Concrete for a Decarbonizing World
For this episode we talk with Dr. Marie Jackson a Research Professor in the Geology & Geophysics department here at the University of Utah. Dr. Jackson’s work is centered in mineralogy,…
S1E18 18: How Great Salt Lake Bird Migrations Are Changing
Zoe Exelbert studies birds at the Great Salt Lake. Specifically, she’s interested in how climate change and shifting weather patterns are affecting bird migrations and in turn, how this is impacting…
S1E17 17: How NHMU's Climate of Hope Exhibit is Improving Climate Communication Strategies
The new Climate of Hope exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah offers museum visitors a more localized and solutions-oriented framing of climate change than other exhibits have done in past…
S1E16 16: Urban Plants + Black Carbon = ?
For this episode we talk with Dr. Alexandra Ponette-Gonzalez, an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning and Curator of Urban ecology at the Natural History Museum of…
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Talking Climate has published 35 episodes since November 2023, covering topics in Earth Sciences, Science.
Talking Climate is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 27m.
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