S3E05 Down to Earth: Dousing Forest Fires in Australia and the Amazon through Geoscience
Similar to Arizona, Australia is no stranger to a hot, dry climate–one that sets a yearly stage for bushfire season. In 2019, Australia experienced one of its worst bushfire seasons to date, with fire...
20 Okt 202240min
S3E04 Down to Earth: Protecting Water Resources Amidst Drought
While arctic thaw is leading to soggier conditions up north, places like Arizona, USA are experiencing higher rates of drought. Due to a combination of human extractive activities alongside climate ch...
9 Okt 202226min
S3E03 Down to Earth: Tracking “human footprints” across the Arctic with Sentinel Data
While human-produced emissions may have decreased during COVID, the levels of methane and carbon dioxide released by permafrost thaw in the Arctic continues unabated. But thawing permafrost doesn’t ju...
25 Sep 202232min
S3E02 Down To Earth: Clearing the Air: Pollution before and during a Pandemic
A major contributor to climate change that often increases with urbanization is air pollution. According to the World Health Organization, air pollution kills around seven million people every year. F...
11 Sep 202231min
S3E01 Down To Earth: Tackling the Earth’s Top Two Megatrends through Remote Sensing
By 2050, approximately 3 billion of the world’s population will live in cities, making urbanization – the population shift from rural to urban areas – the second-largest megatrend impacting life on ou...
28 Aug 202231min
Down To Earth: Season 3 Trailer
Welcome back to “Down to Earth”, a 30-minute podcast about innovative geoscience and the incredible people behind it. In Season 3, we take a deep dive into the ways in which scientists across the glob...
24 Aug 20223min
S2 (Ep9) Down to Earth : Back to Our Roots: The case for Open Science
A key component of the scientific method is replicability. But how do scientists replicate research findings unless they have access to the data, methods, and systems used to generate the initial resu...
4 Aug 202221min
S2 (Ep8) Down to Earth: Looking to the stars for “New Space”
NewSpace is a term that has received a lot of attention recently, particularly with the launch of missions such as SpaceX. However, the term actually represents a movement that is less about billionai...
6 Jul 202220min
