My friend Professor Julienne Stroeve stops by to discuss her academic journey in studying Arctic ice in Greenland. We talk about the implications of the ice disappearing and the effect it has on the climate crisis. We also talk about the more dangerous parts of studying in the Arctic region. We also lament at the inability of humans to stop their consumption in order to slow the climate crisis and we both agree we are headed for some grim times. This is an extremely important conversation with a passionate and brilliant human being!
Professor Julienne Stroeve is a polar climate scientist known for her research on remote sensing of ice and snow. She is Professor of Polar Observation & Modelling at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University College London, Senior Canada-150 Research Chair in Climate Forcing of Sea Ice at the University of Manitoba, and a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). She is also a member of the American Geophysical Union and an ISI highly cited researcher.
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Professor Stroeve’s research has covered Arctic climate change, sea ice decline, atmosphere-ocean ice interactions, remote sensing, and the impact of climate change on native communities. Her recent work has focused on satellite retrievals of Arctic sea ice, and the implications of changing Arctic sea ice on Earth’s climate. She has published 162 articles.Her research has shown that Arctic sea ice decline has happened much faster than models had predicted in recent decades, and that humans may have been the cause of most of this decline. She has also written about the current trend and future predictions of “darkening”, or a reduction in albedo, of the Greenland ice sheet through an increase in snow grain size, impurity content of snow, biological activity, exposure of bare ice, formation of melt pools, and the feedbacks associated with these factors.Professor Stroeve is a researcher with the MOSAiC Expedition and was aboard the RV Polarstern in mid-winter 2019-2020, where she conducted experiments to assess the accuracy of satellite radar systems used to map sea-ice thickness.
00:00 intro
1:00 Why Study Sea Ice ans Climatology
4:00 Being in the Middle of Nowhere in the Arctic
6:40 Over 40 Years of Data on Climate Ice
7:00 Animals who are Going to Lose Big with Climate Change
11:00 Penguins Don’t Live in the Arctic
11:55 Places of the World
12:00 Electric Socks
13:00 Spending Time In Canada
15:00 The Beautiful and Ugly Places in the USA
18:00 How Do You Stay Relaxed In A World Like This
23:00 Humanity Is Doomed, Drink Gin
24:00 Fossil Fuel Companies are Liars
27:00 Geoengineering is Dumb
28:00 Blocking Out The Sun and Using Aerosol
32:00 Repeat History Just Because
33:00 Grim Times Ahead
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