Blue Dot 04: El Niño 2016

By Dave Schlom

Published February 25, 2016 at 10:50 AM PST

What exactly is El Niño and what does it have to do with the warming planet? How can the Jason satellites help us understand all that? What is Josh Willis's favorite movie? For all that and much more, we talked with Josh Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Dave Schlom

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.

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