In this episode of Fridays with a Scientist, Dr. Jesse Bell and Laura Nagengast join to talk about their individual journeys to working in the intersection of water, climate, and public health and the current issues we face in the state related to those topics.

In this weeks episode of Fridays with a Scientist, Caily Schwartz, Ph.D. student in the School of Natural Resources, joins to talk a recent Weather, Climate, and Society paper that she led that dives into water resource managers perception and understanding of #flashdrought.

In this episode of Fridays with a Scientist, Dr. Judah Cohen of Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. joins to talk about what arctic amplification is, how it is linked to the rapid warming of the Arctic, and how it is linked to extreme cold outbreaks in the central and eastern U.S. in the past few decades. His blog can be found here: https://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation/

In this week's episode, Dr. Travis (TJ) Prochaska of UNL Extension joins to talk about his experiences serving as an educator in North Dakota before moving back home to Nebraska. We discuss a wide variety of topics including the shifting crop landscape in North Dakota, the different crops he's worked with, how drought seems to be following him, and the different pests and diseases in his Accountability Region.

In this week's episode Amanda Folck, Turfgrass Extension specialist at UNL, talks about her internship with the Arsenal (English Premier League), her experiences working with athletic departments at Texas A&M, Purdue, and Nebraska, her collaboration with Hillcrest and other golf courses in the state, the impact of drought to the most common cool season grasses and why bermuda grass doesn't grow well up here.

In this episode, Dr. John Carroll joins to talk about his experience being a leader and director of a large academic unit during COVID. Then we chat for a while about how universities are dealing with artificial intelligence like Chat GPT.