Host Dave Schlom visits with his good friend, Josh Willis. Josh is an oceanographer and climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He has appeared on every iteration of Blue Dot since 2008.
His recent work on how the warming Atlantic Ocean's currents are warming and melting Greenland's massive ice sheets has been groundbreaking. He'll give us a State of the Oceans report explaining how and why the world's oceans are expanding due to the massive amounts of heat they are absorbing due to human-caused climate change.
Despite the seriousness of the topic, Josh knows how to communicate with a light heart using his theater and improv skills to add a touch of humor to a complex and difficult subject. Dave and Josh also discuss what some of the most important attributes are for effective science communication in a time when that is desperately needed!
