WeatherBrains

WeatherBrains 892: Journal of Stuff That Didn't Work


Listen Later

Tonight's first Guest WeatherBrain is a meteorologist, oceanographer, and science educator turned historian of science.  She authored "Weather by the Numbers:  The Genesis of Modern Meteorology".  She currently works for the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen.  Dr. Kristine Harper, welcome!  Our second Guest WeatherBrain is a mesoscale/outlook forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK.  She's been at the National Weather Service since 2002, and started her career as a student volunteer at the NWS in Norman.  She's also the first woman to ever issue a convective watch at the SPC.  Elizabeth Leitman, welcome!  Our Guest Panelist this week is is a meteorologist from Texas with a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  He is an advocate for the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature and is working with legislators in Texas to educate and implement policy changes across the state for heat safety.  In addition, he is a GitHub code developer who has made a a self install script for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) which has had over 2500 downloads across 80 countries.  Will Hathaway, welcome!

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

WeatherBrainsBy Big Brains Media LLC

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

164 ratings


More shows like WeatherBrains

View all
Stuff You Should Know by iHeartPodcasts

Stuff You Should Know

78,791 Listeners

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History by Dan Carlin

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

64,088 Listeners

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! by NPR

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

38,782 Listeners

StarTalk Radio by Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio

14,366 Listeners

How Did This Get Made? by Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas

How Did This Get Made?

23,191 Listeners

The Best of Car Talk by NPR

The Best of Car Talk

16,596 Listeners

This Week in Tech (Audio) by TWiT

This Week in Tech (Audio)

3,060 Listeners

Science Friday by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Science Friday

6,434 Listeners

Pod Save America by Pod Save America

Pod Save America

87,976 Listeners

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell by Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

7,392 Listeners

Weather Geeks by Weather Group Television

Weather Geeks

176 Listeners

The Bulwark Podcast by The Bulwark

The Bulwark Podcast

12,766 Listeners

Strict Scrutiny by Strict Scrutiny

Strict Scrutiny

5,868 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,492 Listeners

This is Gavin Newsom by iHeartPodcasts

This is Gavin Newsom

7,201 Listeners